Families get homes after decades of waiting
AFTER a 40-year struggle, 32 Indian families in Perak have finally received the deeds to their homes, Makkal Osai reported.
These families had built their houses on JKR-owned land after the Ladang Bikam plantation, where they previously resided, was sold off decades ago.
State exco member A. Sivanesan confirmed that the state government intervened after JKR said it no longer needed the land.
The government then took over the land and issued the long-awaited land deeds.
Similarly, 52 families in Kampung Baru Kuala Bikam are seeing resolutions to their own nearly five-decade-long land issues. Some have already received their land deeds, while others are in the process.
The Kampung Senggai families received their deeds from Sivanesan during the opening ceremony of the RM9mil Dewan Muhibbah Bidor.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
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