{"id":6689,"date":"2010-07-20T23:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2010-07-20T23:01:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T15:01:44","slug":"parents-of-kampar-river-victims-yet-to-get-compensation-from-state-education-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2010\/07\/20\/parents-of-kampar-river-victims-yet-to-get-compensation-from-state-education-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"parents of Kampar river victims yet to get compensation from state education dept"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you remember this case<\/a><\/strong>? 3 girls drowned last year. You can read more articles on the Kampar Tragedy here<\/a><\/strong>. The court case is pending.<\/p>\n

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The parents of the three primary school pupils who drowned in the Kampar River after the bridge they were on collapsed on Oct 26 last year have finally received a total of about RM76,000 in donations collected from various schools in Perak.<\/p>\n

The three girls who drowned in the incident were N Dina Dewa and M Davadharshini both aged 11, from SJK (T) Mambang Diawan in Batu Gajah and V Diviyasari, 12, from SJK (T) Gopeng.<\/p>\n

They were among 22 pupils crossing the suspension bridge (left), from the SK Kuala Dipang primary school back to a ‘1Malaysia’ camping site across the river when the bridge gave away at 10.30pm.<\/p>\n

Today, lorry driver T Nathan, father of Dina, and K Mageswaran, father of Davadharshini, displayed the cheques they received at the PKR office in Gopeng. K Vasuthavan, father of Diviyasari, could not be present as he was working in Singapore.<\/p>\n

The two parents said they received their cheques from the headmaster of the SJK (T) Mambang Diawan Tamil school last Friday.<\/p>\n

Both Nathan and Mageswaran received RM25,312.55 each. The parents said they were aware that donations were being collected from various schools, but were unsure when the state education department would hand the collected amount over to them.<\/p>\n

Several observers have pointed out that the donations may have been held back from the parents out of spite, in light of the settlement of a lawsuit that the parents had filed against the department.<\/p>\n

The handing over of the donations to the bereaved families and the release of the federal government’s findings into the bridge collapse tragedy were highlighted to Deputy Education Minister Wee Ka Siong when a Pakatan ad hoc committee, headed by ousted Perak speaker V Sivakumar (right), visited Parliament on July 12.<\/p>\n

The visit apparently proved fruitful as the donations collected were then ordered to be released by the authorities, though there has been no word yet on the release of the government’s findings into the tragedy.<\/p>\n

Pakatan had disclosed on Nov 16 last year their findings of the tragedy and have urged the government to officially announce their results as well.<\/p>\n

The parents of the deceased children have filed a RM105 million civil suit against SJK (T) Mambang Diawan and SJK (T) Gopeng where two of the children studied, the Kinta Selatan district education office, the Perak Education Department, the Education Ministry, the commandant of the 1Malaysia camp, the sponsor of the bridge’s construction, the contractor and the Malaysian government.<\/p>\n

They also want the Ipoh High Court to compel the government to reveal their findings of the bridge collapse tragedy.<\/p>\n

The families’ suit is coming up for mention at the Ipoh High Court on July 28.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you remember this case? 3 girls drowned last year. You can read more articles on the Kampar Tragedy here. The court case is pending. The parents of the three primary school pupils who drowned in the Kampar River after the bridge they were on collapsed on Oct 26 last year have finally received a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[117,19,148],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-education","tag-perak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}