{"id":7259,"date":"2011-02-12T21:53:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T13:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2011-02-12T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T13:53:11","slug":"sjkt-seaport-relocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2011\/02\/12\/sjkt-seaport-relocation\/","title":{"rendered":"SJKT Seaport relocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, the state government managed to fulfill something. The previous state government offered only 1 acre (0.4ha) but the current government managed to increase it to 0.6ha (1.5 acre) and also increase the classes from 10 to 18.<\/p>\n<p>This was the school that was among the contentious issues during GE2008. Read about the protest of the parents <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/04\/12\/bigger-land-for-sjkt-seaport\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Khir Toyo and Samy Vellu were booed.<\/p>\n<p>Read the relevant reports in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.selangorkini.com.my\/my\/berita\/29116\" target=\"_blank\">Selangorkini<\/a><\/strong> and also the aspiration of the PIBG to have 24 classes instead of 18 here at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/komunitikini.com\/news\/pibg-seaport-mohon-sekolah-tamil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Komunitikini<\/a><\/strong>. The below is news from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/metro\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/2\/11\/central\/8032182&amp;sec=central\" target=\"_blank\">The Star<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AFTER much controversy, the Seaport Tamil school in SS7, Kelana Jaya, Petaling Jaya, will be relocated to Kampung Lindungan after the Parent-Teachers Association (PTA) agreed to the new site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2008, parents and the community in the area had protested against the relocation of the school to a 0.4ha site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a recent meeting with the PTA members, Seri Setia assemblyman Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said the Selangor government had in December last year approved a 0.6ha site in Kampung Lindungan for the school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The school now sits on a temporary site owned by PKNS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAfter the approval, Petaling district officer Datuk Zulkepli Ahamd had called for a meeting in January between all relevant government agencies that I attended with (Selangor executive councillor) Dr Xavier Jayakumar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDuring the meeting, we were told that the PKNS have already contributed RM1.2mil towards the building of the school and the plans for the 18-class school have been approved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He hoped that the school would be built soon so that the residents from Kg Lindungan, Desa Mentari, Desaria and Dato\u2019 Hormat would be able to send their children to a school with better facilities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, the state government managed to fulfill something. The previous state government offered only 1 acre (0.4ha) but the current government managed to increase it to 0.6ha (1.5 acre) and also increase the classes from 10 to 18. This was the school that was among the contentious issues during GE2008. Read about the protest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[84,27,147,20],"class_list":["post-7259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tamil-schools","tag-funds","tag-protest","tag-selangor","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259","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=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}