By Asia Samachar | Malaysia |
The Sikh community in Bandar Sri Sendayan, a fast developing township neighbouring Seremban and Port Dickson, held the groundbreaking ceremony today (Aug 25) for a gurdwara which is expected to be up and running in 2027.
The new gurdwara will serve local Sikh community, counting more than three dozen families, and those from surrounding areas which include S2 Heights, Bandar Ainsdale, Rasa Kemayan, Mambau and Seremban 2.
“This is an up-coming township, it’s a good township. The land will be valuable in 50 years,” Dr Sukhdarshan Singh Dhillon, one of key prime movers of the gurdwara project, told Asia Samachar in an interview today before the groundbreaking ceremony.
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The ceremony was attended by federal transport minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook, the Member of Parliament for Seremban and Member of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Chennah.
Also present was Matrix Concepts Holdings Bhd founder and Group Executive Deputy Chairman Lee Tian Hock.
The 1.1 acres land was allocated no cost by Matrix Concepts, owner of the Bandar Sri Sendayan flagship project.
Dr Sukhdarshan is the president of the Persatuan Penganut Sikhism Negeri Sembilan, a registered NGO which now owns the land.
(Next: How will Sri Sendayan work with the Seremban gurdwara, which currently serves the Sikh Sanggat in that area? What are the plans moving forward for the new Sri Sendayan gurdwara?)
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I cannot fathom this. The Sikh population in Malaysia is declining . Yet I keep hearing about more temples being built and the existing ones being expanded and enlarged. Some of the temples look like palaces. Why is this happening. Does no one in the community question such wastage?. Instead of working to consolidate the temples in the face of the declining Sikh population we are building more and bigger and more grandiose. The money which is being contributed to building the temples should be channeled to further lift the young and help the old and the sick in the Sikh community. Provide enhanced education scholarships and provide subsidized and free medical treatment for the old and poor in the community.
The Sikh leaders have really lost theior sense of direction. How sad.
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