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Post date:
26 Nov 2014 - 4:21pm
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A netizen has exposed the claims by the Ministry of National Development (MND) that the service and conservancy charges (S&CC) operating grant is allocated to all Town Councils (TCs) based on the number of HDB flat units and the flat types.
MND said that the "grant formula has been in place since 1999, and is applied consistently to all TCs.
"S&CC grants are not based on the number of voters, nor does it apply to private property residents. TCs will receive more grants if they have more and smaller HDB flat types."
MND said this on November 20.
However, it was discovered by a netizen that prior to November 20, this information was never publicly known.
Information on website prior to change on November 19
In fact, it was on November 19 that MND amended the Town Councils website and inserted the new information on its website.
The new information that was inserted on the website reads: "The annual operating grant, also known as S&CC grant, is allocated to Town Councils based on the number of HDB flat units and the flat types. Smaller flat types get higher grants. The grant enables TCs to subsidise the S&CC for residents living in 4-room and smaller flats, with more being allocated for 1-room ($33.70 per month), 2-room ($26.20 per month) and 3-room ($17.00 per month) households. The grant for each 4-room household is $9 per month."
Information on website after insertion on November 19
This later became part of the reply that MND sent out to the media.
However, as many have pointed out, this information is inconsistent with the actual grants given out.
In 2011, when the Aljunied GRC was still under the control of PAP, the government gave the town council a grant of $26.7 million.
But after the PAP lost Aljunied to the Worker's Party, the government reduced the grants for the WP dramatically - it went down all the way to $7.3 million in 2012 and 2013.
Since then, many more discrepancies and inconsistencies about the funds that the government gives to the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) have been exposed by netizens.
This has led some Singaporeans to ask if the new grant allocation claim by the MND was really in place or if it was newly created on November 19.
Last week, Minister of State for National Development Desmond Lee accused the WP of “serious financial mismanagement” and said that the WP needed to respond.
Mr Lee also said that "The key issue is accountability and transparency" and that the WP has to "come clean".
But the latest developments show that it might be the PAP-run government which has to come clean instead.
It looks like the PAP has taken to "fixing" the WP to a whole new level.
{please help to repost with charts}
Post date:
26 Nov 2014 - 4:21pm
[photo credit: Channel NewsAsia]
A netizen has exposed the claims by the Ministry of National Development (MND) that the service and conservancy charges (S&CC) operating grant is allocated to all Town Councils (TCs) based on the number of HDB flat units and the flat types.
MND said that the "grant formula has been in place since 1999, and is applied consistently to all TCs.
"S&CC grants are not based on the number of voters, nor does it apply to private property residents. TCs will receive more grants if they have more and smaller HDB flat types."
MND said this on November 20.
However, it was discovered by a netizen that prior to November 20, this information was never publicly known.
Information on website prior to change on November 19
In fact, it was on November 19 that MND amended the Town Councils website and inserted the new information on its website.
The new information that was inserted on the website reads: "The annual operating grant, also known as S&CC grant, is allocated to Town Councils based on the number of HDB flat units and the flat types. Smaller flat types get higher grants. The grant enables TCs to subsidise the S&CC for residents living in 4-room and smaller flats, with more being allocated for 1-room ($33.70 per month), 2-room ($26.20 per month) and 3-room ($17.00 per month) households. The grant for each 4-room household is $9 per month."
Information on website after insertion on November 19
This later became part of the reply that MND sent out to the media.
However, as many have pointed out, this information is inconsistent with the actual grants given out.
In 2011, when the Aljunied GRC was still under the control of PAP, the government gave the town council a grant of $26.7 million.
But after the PAP lost Aljunied to the Worker's Party, the government reduced the grants for the WP dramatically - it went down all the way to $7.3 million in 2012 and 2013.
Since then, many more discrepancies and inconsistencies about the funds that the government gives to the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) have been exposed by netizens.
This has led some Singaporeans to ask if the new grant allocation claim by the MND was really in place or if it was newly created on November 19.
Last week, Minister of State for National Development Desmond Lee accused the WP of “serious financial mismanagement” and said that the WP needed to respond.
Mr Lee also said that "The key issue is accountability and transparency" and that the WP has to "come clean".
But the latest developments show that it might be the PAP-run government which has to come clean instead.
It looks like the PAP has taken to "fixing" the WP to a whole new level.
