TWENTY families, who received 0.8ha land each after they were retrenched from a Perak plantation 20 years ago, have demanded that they be allowed to build houses there, Makkal Osai reported.
The former estate workers’ lawyer K. Gunasekaran said they were given the land in 1997 after a prolonged battle with the plantation owners and the intervention of then-state mentri besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Tajol Rosli.
However, they were told by a subsidiary of Perak Corp Bhd that the land could only be used as agricultural land and not for residential.
The families submitted a memorandum to the Mentri Besar’s office, appealing for the land status to be converted.
> Inspired by the laughter clubs that were gaining traction in India, a man in Gujarat has started a crying club, Tamil Nesan reported.
While members of the laughter clubs engaged in laughing out loud and being humorous, members of the crying club were encouraged to bawl away the problems that were troubling them.
