The Penang government has been urged to provide homes at a nominal price to former estate workers and those displaced from other estates.
Urimai chairman P Ramasamy praised the state government for honouring its pledge to provide free housing to the 23 families in Ladang Sungai Kechil in Nibong Tebal, but said the state should also show kindness to other Indian families who have “toiled for generations” in estates across Penang.
He said chief minister Chow Kon Yeow was well aware of the plight of former plantation workers in the state.
“Let not overzealous, pro-capitalist elements in the administration prioritise profit over the welfare and dignity of the workers,” he said in a Facebook post.
“If the former Caledonia estate workers were able to purchase low-cost terrace houses for as little as RM10, I…