PAP gahmen creates unnecessary red tape to provide income opportunity for supporters & cronies?

[bic_cherry]

PAP gahmen creates unnecessary red tape to provide income opportunity for supporters & cronies?

Consider common medical form for vocational, driving licences
PUBLISHED 15June 2018.

Taxi drivers above 65 years of age are required to submit a medical examination report to the Land Transport Authority (LTA) for a vocational licence; and another to the Traffic Police for a driving licence in order for these licences to be approved by the respective government division.

The two divisions request the medical report in different months of the year, and each has its respective form that has to be completed by a doctor.

LTA clearly states: "Please note that we do not accept other types of medical forms for the purpose of your vocational licence (including Traffic Police medical report)." This also applies to the Traffic Police, which will not accept the LTA medical report.

This inflexibility has caused much inconvenience to vocational licence holders as we have to visit clinics at different times of the year for a similar purpose, that is driving a car and a taxi.

We also incur additional expenses.

We hope the two government divisions would coordinate the timing of the medical examination and accept a common medical examination form.

Yee Yung Kong

A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 15, 2018, with the headline 'Consider common medical form for vocational, driving licences'. Print Edition | Subscribe

https://www.straitstimes.com/forum/...-medical-form-for-vocational-driving-licences

 

[virus]

sinkies against sinkies even at ministerial and agencies level. how to be 1st world

 

[Leongsam]

This is age discrimination and is not allowed in the Western bleeding liberal countries.

 

[bic_cherry]

This is age discrimination and is not allowed in the Western bleeding liberal countries.

Issue is not the need for aged 65 and above drivers to prove their health status when renewing their driving license but the inconvenient, wasteful and unnecessary need for two separate (more or less DUPLICATE) medical examinations for what is essentially the same objective at hand.

 

[Kuailan]

This is what happened when a Ruling Party has been sitting for toooo long time to change just like COE !!

COE expired go Fuck off we don't need you sicking million dollars salary from Tax Payer's money!

 

[Truth_Hurts]

Singkieland is the welfare state for the PAP

 

[mojito]

At 65 you should be retired and enjoying life! Why are these money grubbers so hard up on a few dollars in the pocket?