{"id":8037,"date":"2011-10-20T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=8037"},"modified":"2011-10-20T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:02:11","slug":"indian-cultural-centre-in-klang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2011\/10\/20\/indian-cultural-centre-in-klang\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Cultural Centre in Klang?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Interesting news indeed. Wonder when this Indian cultural centre will be completed and how exactly the state government plans to source additional funds from private sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BTW, what happened to proposal to set up Indian Cultural Centre in Batu Caves in 2008?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Indian cultural centre will be built in Klang,\u00a0<em>Tamil Nesan\u00a0<\/em>reported<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The paper quoted Selangor executive councillor\u00a0Dr Xavier Jeyakumar\u00a0as saying that the state government had allocated RM2mil for the centre, with added funds to be sourced from the private sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A plot of land of about four to six hectares by the Klang river had been earmarked for the project, he said after attending the\u00a0<em>Navarathiri\u00a0<\/em>religious prayers at the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Kota Kemuning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event marked an auspicious Hindu festival to symbolise the triumph of good over evil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Xavier said discussions were being held with the Indian High Commission as well as various cultural and religious organisations to ensure that elements of Indian culture and identity were reflected in the making of the centre.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/10\/13\/nation\/9684400&amp;sec=nation\">http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/10\/13\/nation\/9684400&amp;sec=nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Interesting news indeed. Wonder when this Indian cultural centre will be completed and how exactly the state government plans to source additional funds from private sector. BTW, what happened to proposal to set up Indian Cultural Centre in Batu Caves in 2008? &nbsp; An Indian cultural centre will be built in Klang,\u00a0Tamil Nesan\u00a0reported. The paper [&hellip;]<\/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":[280,84,225,147],"class_list":["post-8037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-culture","tag-funds","tag-politicians","tag-selangor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037","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=8037"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8045,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions\/8045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}