Batu Gajah

Batu Gajah is a region in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. It is the capital of Kinta District. Acclaimed for its tin mining some time before the Independence Day of Malaya, Batu Gajah had been a perfect place for Chinese foreigners to remain and work amid those years. This adds to a huge level of Chinese in the number of inhabitants in Batu Gajah today. The Indian Settlement town at Changkat has a huge Indian populace of Tamils and furthermore Punjabis who constructed one of the most established Sikh sanctuaries in Perak. Batu Gajah had a built up pre-war British English school, which was renamed Sultan Yussuf School SYS after the war.

The Sultan of Perak DYMM Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Yussuf Izzuddin Shah Ghafarullahu-lah is a former student of this school. Once in the past known as the Government English School GES, it was established by Mr. Malai Perumal Pillay in 1907. The school was worked from the rubble of an old correctional facility. Throughout the years, it has delivered numerous effective understudies. Batu Gajah since lies on the bank of Sungai Kinta, somewhat downstream from the real juncture of Sungai Raya. It began as one of the numerous towns of mukim Sungai Terap, created under its main boss, the Sri Amar DiRaja, the mid nineteenth century.