Godmother Government

In a conversation that I had with a student who has been living in Singapore for the last 5 years, some interesting facts came out.

Singapore has a government agency called SDU- a Social Development Unit whose sole pupose is to promote girl-boy interaction which should culminate in a marriage which in turn will produce offsprings who will be lead the country forward. They organise speed-dating events and also arrange blind-dates for people. In fact, every students after completing his undergrad studies receives a letter from them to join their agency and look for their soul-mate. They regularly question universities to ask them what has been done in this direction. It is imperative for universities to create a 'scenario' to promote 'such interaction'. For e.g., NTU moved it's accounting school from some place in the city to its technological campus in order to increase the number of girls which is generally less in a tech. school. This, improved the technological school's environment. Eversince, the humanities school was started the situation has improved. Not just that, SDU gives money to some notable student communities to organise clubbing nights so that girls and boys can get a good environment to 'mingle'. The university promotes such activities. For e.g., some clubs of the university organise speed dating events. Tables and chairs are set up in an arena, girls and boys sit to talk for a set period, then the whistle blows and tables change! Not to miss, the kind of benefits given to couples who produce children to add to Singapore's work force which in the next three decades will be aged and unproductive.

I guess the goverment is like the godmother of all Singaporeans- not only pampering them with state-of-the-art facilities but even arranging marriages for them.