Integrating new citizens 1 of key priorities Indian Activity

shanfan SG

Integrating new citizens is one of key priorities for Indian Activity Groups
By S Ramesh

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged the People's Association's Indian Activity Groups, better known as Narpani Pearavai, to evolve to tackle new priorities like integrating new citizens.

At the convention which was attended by leaders in the community like the SINDA Board of Trustees, Mr Lee said a more diverse and complex society is evolving in Singapore, with new citizens from India coming from many regions of the sub-continent.

Mr Lee asked the Indian Activity Groups to rise to the challenge to promote intra-ethnic understanding.

And this can come in different forms - like how the groups in the Sengkang and Woodlands CCs use cricket to attract new citizens and PRs from India. Mr Lee said as a result, Singapore's cricket standards have gone up.

PM Lee said: "Come up with new ideas, new ways of connecting with the new arrivals, to bring them in into our community gradually to make them more and more Singaporean in their experience, their outlook, their attitudes, in their sense of identity and belonging, that this is Singapore and this is our home."

The issue of the low-income group in society was also discussed.

Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of SINDA's Board of Trustees, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, said: "Even the poorest people have their hopes and aspirations, and our job is not just to provide a safety net but to provide a trampoline, because it is not just people falling down and needing a soft landing but a trampoline for them to spring up and discover they have strengths."

A commemorative book about the work of the Indian Activity Groups was launched.

There are now 94 Indian Activity Executive Committees (IAEC) in the community centres all over Singapore, and the IAEC will be celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2012.

- CNA/fa/ls

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~ SG

Come up with new ideas, new ways of connecting with the new arrivals, to bring them in into our community gradually to make them more and more Singaporean in their experience, their outlook, their attitudes, in their sense of identity and belonging, that this is Singapore and this is our home

Meh...

I dun anyhow bring ppl into my home...

Even the poorest people have their hopes and aspirations, and our job is not just to provide a safety net but to provide a trampoline, because it is not just people falling down and needing a soft landing but a trampoline for them to spring up and discover they have strengths.

joking ah??? what about our own ppl???

then these "new arrival" need soft landing and trampoline???

they wan 3 meal in hawker centre, food court or resturant???

shanfan SG

Ya la, help integrate them to take over our jobs while the Lee Hsien Looong and ministers continue to enjoy the peace and million dollar salary.

Clivebenss SG

Meh...

I dun anyhow bring ppl into my home...

joking ah??? what about our own ppl???

then these "new arrival" need soft landing and trampoline???

they wan 3 meal in hawker centre, food court or resturant???

they want study in primary, secondary or uni?

shanfan SG

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