{"id":8355,"date":"2012-01-15T14:24:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T06:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=8355"},"modified":"2012-01-15T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T06:24:24","slug":"tamil-school-renamed-after-datuk-pathmanathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2012\/01\/15\/tamil-school-renamed-after-datuk-pathmanathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil school renamed after Datuk Pathmanathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FYI: the school in question is SJKT Ladang Tanah Pancis.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 63-YEAR-OLD Tamil school in Tanah Pancis in Rompin, Negri Sembilan, will be renamed after former deputy health minister and MIC vice-president Datuk K. Pathmanathan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its headmaster Rajan Gopal said the decision was made as Pathmanathan, who died in 2001, had made huge contributions to the state, country and the Indian community, reported\u00a0<em>Makkal Osai<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The renaming ceremony to be held on Dec 3 will be attended by special envoy with Ministerial rank for Infrastructure to India and South Asia\u00a0Datuk Seri S. Samy Velu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The estate-born Pathmanathan was the Teluk Kemang MP for four terms from 1974 and had actively fought for the rights of Malaysian Indians, especially in the fields of education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When he headed MIC&#8217;s education bureau, he was credited with getting more places for Indian students in public universities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was also the founding chairman of Manipal Medical College in Malacca and was instrumental in getting both the governments of Malaysia and India to agree to a twinning programme between the college and an Indian university.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/11\/25\/nation\/9972663&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/11\/25\/nation\/9972663&amp;sec=nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FYI: the school in question is SJKT Ladang Tanah Pancis. A 63-YEAR-OLD Tamil school in Tanah Pancis in Rompin, Negri Sembilan, will be renamed after former deputy health minister and MIC vice-president Datuk K. Pathmanathan. Its headmaster Rajan Gopal said the decision was made as Pathmanathan, who died in 2001, had made huge contributions to [&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":[20],"class_list":["post-8355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tamil-schools","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355","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=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8458,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}