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Promise of housing under review
Compiled by JUNAID IBRAHIM, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
A GROUP of Indian residents in Sungai Kechil, Penang, are calling on the state government to honour its pledge to preserve their village and build new homes.
The residents said authorities had promised to obtain a court order halting their eviction, construct houses for them, and retain the area as an Indian settlement, Makkal Osai reported.
They raised their concerns during the Jada Muniswarar Temple festival at Sungai Kechil Plantation.
Local politicians had previously stepped in to stop the residents' eviction in 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The residents also appealed to the government to fulfil its promise not only to them but to other communities such as Kampung Main Road in Perai.
(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.)
