Ngiam Tong Dow: Long serving Civil Servants become elites and fossilised

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[h=1]Ngiam Tong Dow: Long serving Civil Servants become elites and fossilised[/h]admin / 14 hours ago July 11, 2015


Former senior civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow cautioned the Singapore Government about keeping well-educated Singaporeans only within the public sector instead of spreading them out to the various segments of society:

“If you just keep them within the Government, in the long run, (they) become an elite, become fossilised”
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In the public forum at the DBS Asian Insights Conference held on Friday (July 10), Ngiam Tong Dow, who is now serving as an adjunct professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, also said in a response to a floor question that young civil servants should be trained at understanding ground-level problems first before being parachuted to becoming a regulator:

“When a young scholar comes back, he should not be sent to the Ministry of Finance’s Treasury division and become the regulator. He should really be sent to the Economic Development Board (EDB), or the Housing and Development Board, and serve an internship of a year to learn the problems of the ground.

Unless the civil servant knows the problems on the ground, he would become just a regulator. And regulators, there are too many (of them) in Singapore”
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Ngiam Tong Dow’s response was well-received by the attendees who are mainly private investors, top management executives and government leaders.

 

[Sir_Fcuk]

Makes sense. Why now (after LKY up lorry) then you say??

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

Makes sense. Why now (after LKY up lorry) then you say??

he has been saying so many times but nobody wants to listen............. the art of listening is DEAD

 

[enterprise2]

Is it any wonder our competitors have caught up and now ahead of us!

 

[JOKERCHEW]

All of us knew this long long ago.

right?

 

[JohnTan]

All scholars do serve on the ground level. They serve for a short while to get their hands dirty, then they move up to making policy where they are destined to be. My son is looking forward to serving the plebians and getting to know them better for a year or two behind moving up the ranks quickly to lead them.

 

[Hans168]

Makes sense. Why now (after LKY up lorry) then you say??

This guy is deciple of Goh Keng Swee n learnt a lot from the Dutch Guru Wisenmus..
Only diff is when Keng Swee talks pple listen; this guy does not get listened to although whatever he talked made sense

 

[enterprise2]

All scholars do serve on the ground level. They serve for a short while to get their hands dirty, then they move up to making policy where they are destined to be. My son is looking forward to serving the plebians and getting to know them better for a year or two behind moving up the ranks quickly to lead them.

Yeah! Rite! And I'm the king of England!

 

[Kuailan]

Makes sense. Why now (after LKY up lorry) then you say??

Ngiam told the the truth was asked by Pinky to retract what ever he say!!

Or else .....pension all habis and other gahmen benefit also habis!!

Especially when he question oldman on COE!

Oldman said to Ngiam on COE = COE all the way out to make money from Peasants!!

And we can FIX the Price of COE!!

It has been happening all the time Price Fixing on COE!! by the Pay And Pay!

 

[zeebjii]

LOL another pile of shit who didn't realise he's talking about himself. No wonder no one's listening to him.

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Now 76, Ngiam spent a good four decades serving in various portfolios within the government, chairing the Economic Development Board, taking on permanent secretary roles at the ministry of finance and the Prime Minister's Office, and chairing numerous government-linked organisations, companies and agencies that included DBS, the CPF board and HDB.
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[GoldenDragon]

This guy is deciple of Goh Keng Swee n learnt a lot from the Dutch Guru Wisenmus..
Only diff is when Keng Swee talks pple listen; this guy does not get listened to although whatever he talked made sense

A pity he failed to address these matters when he was PS.