Board shocked to find ‘thosai’ can’t be sold in school canteen
MAKKAL Osai reported that the Penang Hindu Endowment Board is shocked that a school in Penang was instructed not to sell Indian food, such as thosai, in the canteen.
Board executive director M. Ramachandran said such an instruction was not acceptable in a multicultural society.
He called for the district or state education officials who issued the instruction to be investigated immediately.
> The caretakers of the Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Subang Jaya, Selangor, have vowed to defy a court order asking them to vacate the land, reported Tamil dailies.
The temple committee’s former president M. Nagarajan said the place of worship, which was built by plantation workers, had been on that piece of land for over 140 years.
Although the case over the temple land is still pending in court, the order was issued at the request of the current land owner.
Nagarajan said the committee was promised an amicable solution by the then Selangor mentri besar Datuk Seri Azmin Ali at a May 5 meeting.
As the committee was scheduled to meet the current mentri besar to discuss the matter, Nagarajan said they were shocked to receive the court notice.
A special meeting will be convened to discuss the status of the temple and the land it now occupies.