We need to learn

Singapore

Singapore is the smallest country in Southeast Asia but it is one of the best places to live in Asia. Here people get good water, proper water conservation, pure air, clean energy, controlled traffic and efficient energy supply.

We have to learn few things from Singapore

• ·         In 1967, the Government had launched ‘Singapore Clean Campaign’ and this was soon followed by the Public Health Law.

•       Even today it has adhered to the objectives of the campaign.·       

• ·         The Government has always emphasized on making Singapore a ‘Garden City’, with key focus on urban planning and pollution control. This is the will power of the Singapore government that today the city is clean and green.

• ·         People drink fresh and clean drinking water.

• ·         There are progressive environmental policies in the country. Government takes steps to conserve the natural resources of the country.

• ·         Also, the Government had come up with the scheme of providing Government-subsidized low-income housing. This was an indirect way to provide access to household sanitation. The availability of affordable public housing led to a large number of people moving from unfit slum housing or kampong, where open defecation was common, to houses with access to personal safe sanitation.

• ·         There are various initiatives undertaken on a regular basis such as ‘Clean & Green Singapore Schools Carnival’, ‘Bring Your Own Bag Day’ at supermarkets etc. which have played important roles in trying to make Singapore ‘a city within a garden’.