Lim Swee Say: People’s Association made millions out of pasar malams to help the poor

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[h=1]Lim Swee Say: People’s Association made millions out of pasar malams to help the poor[/h]admin / 5 hours ago August 19, 2015





In a parliamentary response to Workers’ Party Aljunied GRC MP Sylvia Lim’s question, Deputy Chairman of the People’s Association (PA) Minister Lim Swee Say revealed that the PA, through the Citizens’ Consultative Committees (CCCs), made several millions in revenue every year from trade fairs also known as pasar malams.


Photo of Lim Swee Say from thestraitstimes


Pasar malams are make-shift trade fairs, lasting between 16 and 32 days, that sell street food and cheap retail items. The PA made money by charging these make-shift stalls rental.

Between 2012 and 2014, the PA made S$10,000 and S$100,000 from each pasar malam in two-third of the total 40 events organised. The remaining one-third made S$100,000 and S$350,000 in revenue. For the Muslim Ramadan period, the Geylang Serai Trade Fair made S$900,000 and S$1.3 million every year.

Minister Lim Swee Say that the millions profits made from these pasar malams go into helping the poor, providing welfare assistance, scholarships and bursaries.

In 2014, the Opposition Workers’ Party Town Council was fined S$800 for holding a Chinese New Year trade fair without a permit. The PAP candidate for Aljunied GRC in the coming General Election Victor Lye then chastised the WP for making money from these trade fair:








[h=3]Comments[/h]3 comments

 

[makapaaa]

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Dave Tan · SIM Open University
PA used the money to help the poor or use to promote PAP? Or use the money to let the grassroot anyhow claim?

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Raymond NgAny amount of money collected should be accounted for, audited and if reappropriated for any good cause, must be endorsed by the People 's Association Chairman and published as an Annual Statement in all National Newspapers. Has this been done from PA 's inception till date? If not, Why???

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Balasubramaniam Murugesu · Building Manager at MacTech Building
For 10 years PA did not submit their Financial Statement. Whoops wiser where all the money went to.

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[frenchbriefs]

Re: Lim Swee Say: People’s Association made millions out of pasar malams to help the

Let us give john tan a round of applause for he and the peoples association members hard work.

 

[Leongsam]

Re: Lim Swee Say: People’s Association made millions out of pasar malams to help the

This shows that the PA does lots of good work and they have done a lot to help the less privileged members of society.

 

[jw5]

Re: Lim Swee Say: People’s Association made millions out of pasar malams to help the

In that case, someone else must have paid for the mango-eating trips around the world. :p

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Re: Lim Swee Say: People’s Association made millions out of pasar malams to help the

NKF style la....
10 cents to the dollar goes to the poor and the rest makaned by them in the form of salaries, administration expenses and claims for overseas trips etc etc.
hey you cannot say they never help the poor and you cannot say it's corruption because it's all aboveboard and transparent.