HAVING to deal with floods twice within a fortnight has left pupils and teachers of SJK(T) Ladang Jalan Acob in Kapar, Selangor, anxiously looking to the sky every time it gets dark, Makkal Osai reported.
The Tamil school, with 122 pupils, is now surrounded by development projects that have replaced oil palm plantations.
With the drainage system project not completed, the school, which is on slightly lower ground, becomes a pond of water and brown soil during floods.
The frequent continuous heavy rains caused a major flood two weeks ago.
The school’s 15 teachers, parent-teacher association members and board members along with plantation workers and some volunteers managed to clean up the school last week only to see it get inundated again two days ago.
With extensive flooding in Meru, Kapar and Taman Klang Utama, the volunteers had to help out in other areas, leaving the school with a much smaller clean-up crew this time.
School headmaster Vishnu Nokkaraju said pupils have been attending classes online while clean-up work is ongoing.
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.
