What a JOKE!
Our NSFs are being misused to become parking cones to reserve carpark space for MINDEF fat cats at an event that celebrate innovation within the military!
I would like to ask Mr Teo Chee Hean how the above misuse of manpower resources contribute to the productivity and innovation of MINDEF? Sure, NSF are conscripted soldiers, but should MINDEF treat them like cheap labour to be taken for granted?
MINDEF boasted that it had saved $207million from this programme, but on the other hand, how much was wasted misusing NSFs in this manner?
If MINDEF cannot find any productive use of our NSFs, then they should shorten the conscription period so that our boys can go for their studies or start their careers, instead of wasting their time packing NDP goodie bags, or becoming parking cones for the military elites.
http://www.thegovmonitor.com/world_...f-pride-day-2010-innovation-awards-33185.html
Singapore Presents MINDEF PRIDE Day 2010 Innovation Awards
Source: Government of Singapore Posted on: 9th June 2010
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Day 2010 award presentation ceremony at the
Defence Teo Chee Hean officiated at the MINDEF PRIDE (or Productivity and Innovation in Daily Efforts) at the Toa Payoh HDB Hub.
A total of 127 awards were presented to individuals, groups and units from the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) and the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) in recognition of their outstanding and innovative contributions. Through their innovations and work improvement ideas, a
total savings of almost $207 million was achieved in the last financial year.
Speaking at the award presentation ceremony,
Mr Teo highlighted that efforts to transform the SAF at the organizational level represented a major productivity improvement that needed to be embraced at all levels. He added,
“It is therefore critical that the PRIDE movement that we started in 1981 continues to grow and spread throughout MINDEF and the SAF, to always want to achieve the most with the resources allocated to us.”
After the award presentation ceremony, Mr Teo met one of the award recipients Military Expert 2 (ME2) Ong Chin Lin, from the Republic of Singapore Air Force, whose “Chinook helicopter infrared light detector” won him the Best Suggestion Award this year.
ME2 Ong Chin Lin (left) briefing Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean on the Chinook Helicopter Infra-red Light Detector at the MINDEF PRIDE Day Exhibition.
Mr Teo also viewed some of the projects at the exhibition, including the “programmable pressure-activated flotation trigger device for auto-inflated life jackets”, a project which won the team from the Special Operations Tactical Centre the Best Work Improvement Team Project Award and MINDEF Innovation Award, and “my learning space”, a web-based learning portal developed by a team of mostly full-time national servicemen from the Signal Institute.
These projects reflect the theme of this year’s MINDEF Pride Day, “One Idea, Many Possibilities – Innovation Begins with You”. They will be showcased along with a range of other innovative ideas from individuals and teams from MINDEF, the SAF, ST Engineering and the Defence Science & Technology Agency.
The MINDEF PRIDE Day Exhibition is open to the public from 8 to 9 Jun 2010, 11am to 7pm, and on 10 Jun 2010, 11am to 5pm.
Visitors to the exhibition will be treated to exciting games, live radio shows hosted by Power 98FM and JIA 88.3FM deejays, as well as performances by the SAF Music and Drama Company and the SAF Military Police Command.
