I had the chance to drink kopi with a retired government official and he was sighing he way. He told me that this new government is very different from the one he serve under LKY.
He told me that the government department are KPI driven, when they asked for feedback from public with regards to policies implementation, they received good feedback but they do not know how best to implement them.
There is a underlying KPI that for every 1 dollar the government department gets, it should return back $3. ie if HDB takes $1 million from the government to build new housing, it must get a profit back of $3 million.
The topic goes on to talk about Singapore growing population and in fact, it is in the mind of the PAP government to grow Singapore population to 10 million but because there is a limitation to what HDB can built based on Singapore land size, HDB estimate that it can accomodate 6.5 millions.
How to get the population to 10 million ? Under the great PAP visionary plan, we have to accumulate more land mass. One of it could be with new technology in coming future, they may develop PalauTekong and Palau Ubin into another Singapore hub for work, HDB flats etc where transport are by means of water taxi or a bridge across which is very similar to how Japan connect some of the islands etc. We may not see it now but your children or grand children will see that visionary plan come true...
Good luck to us all...
He told me that the government department are KPI driven, when they asked for feedback from public with regards to policies implementation, they received good feedback but they do not know how best to implement them.
There is a underlying KPI that for every 1 dollar the government department gets, it should return back $3. ie if HDB takes $1 million from the government to build new housing, it must get a profit back of $3 million.
The topic goes on to talk about Singapore growing population and in fact, it is in the mind of the PAP government to grow Singapore population to 10 million but because there is a limitation to what HDB can built based on Singapore land size, HDB estimate that it can accomodate 6.5 millions.
How to get the population to 10 million ? Under the great PAP visionary plan, we have to accumulate more land mass. One of it could be with new technology in coming future, they may develop PalauTekong and Palau Ubin into another Singapore hub for work, HDB flats etc where transport are by means of water taxi or a bridge across which is very similar to how Japan connect some of the islands etc. We may not see it now but your children or grand children will see that visionary plan come true...
Good luck to us all...