Singapore — When the country’s former Master Planner and CEO of the Urban Redevelopment Authority Liu Thai Ker said on Tuesday that a 10 million population in Singapore is “not really a ridiculous number” because of the country’s need to remain competitive many netizens were utterly dismayed.
And they said so in no uncertain terms, making it plain that the number is no less provocative than when he first uttered it in April 2013. At that forum nearly nine years ago now, which was organised by the Singapore Institute of Planners on the topic of planning for 2030, Dr Liu had suggested Singapore look even further ahead, possibly to 2100 when it might have 10 million people.
“The world doesn’t end in 2030 and population growth doesn’t end at 6.9 million,” he had said then. That 6.9 million figure mentioned in a government White Paper on Population was already enough to prompt a protest against opening the doors even wider to immigration.Dr Liu, 83, who was Singapore’s Master Planner from 1989 to 1992 when he left the public service, underlined on Tuesday that he was once again speaking in his personal capacity.
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