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Now let's look into how this money is being used for, Social Development, Sercurity and External Relationship, Economic Development and Government administration.
These are the 4 Heads our tax money is being distbributed. I'll be touching more about Social Development, under the social development there is Health , Education, National Development, Environment and water resources , Arts and lastly community development for Sports. Breaking it down further under Community development for Sports their mission statement which is the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) they've following the 3 ARMS which is:
Sports for all - would be able to involve anyone from all wakes of life to come down and enjoy sporting activity. So we question ourselves are we gearing to that direction? From my prespective they're doing a good job such as having different public/private organisation to held sporting events for the masses (i.e Standard Chart. Marathon - its been successful just look @ the turn out rate, Avia Ironman, Newpaper Annual Big Walk - Recently they've stopped no idea why).
Sports Excellence - Increase Sports professionalism in Singapore and create more opportunities for the youth to excel in their sporting talent. There was a recent article it mentioned about how School function within the CCAs, we all know that these days schools have various CCAs which have all sorts of funny sports back then it was just the sports that the Majority played in (ie. Soccer , Basketball , Badminton, table tennis.) But however some schools open opportunities towards gifted CCAs (i.e Schools would close down the a Sports CCA which is underperforming and would give little choices to people who wants to participate in sports) is this part of our Sports excellence what happen to giving many opportunities to our young generation isn't that part of the scheme?
Sports Industry - To Bring the Sporting scence to the next level; I think SSC has done a job well done for this part in creating a suitable environment which allow us to win the bid as host for Youth Olympics. We'll just wait and see for the Sporting facilities to come up and then that would be another story..
To Sum this up or Food for thought - Are We Heading the right Direction towards Sports development. Please take a momment of thoughts =) Feedbacks are always welcome.
Cheers,
Songie
