Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz will go ahead and apply to gazette the Vivekananda Ashram as a national heritage site, he announced today.
Nazri told the Dewan Rakyat that the landowners and the Federal Territories Ministry had been served with a notice of intent by the ministry on Nov 12.
"If there are no objections, we expect to gazette it by March next year. If there are objections, we will follow due process and maybe it will take up until October," he said.
Nazri had been vocal in not wanting the land in Brickfields, on which the 110-year-old ashram sits, from being redeveloped.
His decision was welcomed by Pakatan Rakyat MPs, who applauded Nazri's promptness in resolving the issue.
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