Our contribution to Indian
education
Formed in 1991, Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA) has successfully and proudly stepped into its
23rd year. The growth and evolution of SINDA has been
accompanied with a myriad of changes to better cater to
the Indian community in Singapore.
With the aim of ensuring that the education and
socio-economic levels of the Indian community increases,
SINDA has been working hard for past 23 years through
various projects. This vision of SINDA has been its founding principle. SINDA released a Strategic Review Report
upon reaching its 20th year Anniversary in 2011. The report was crucial to help SINDA re-orientate itself to better
cater to the community covering its blind spots alongside
ensuring the growth of the Indian community.
“SINDA 2020: the New Momentum” is reported
to give penultimate importance to the education standards
of the Indian community. This report was formulated and
announced by SINDA’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr
T Raja Segar, who took up the task as his utmost priority.
During his 5 years tenure as CEO, Mr Raja Segar made
instrumental changes to the organisational structure to
better suit to the problems faced by the Indian community. With his efforts and help, the Saadhana ‘A’ Level Tuition Project has greatly benefitted through various means.
Saadhana is a project that is organised by the NUS Tamil
Language Society (NUS TLS). He showed extra and personalised concern on this project as he personally wanted
more Indian students from Junior Colleges/Pre-University
centres to be able to enter a local university. With the motivation of wanting to provide students the right platform
for improving their education and thus the overall wellbeing of the individual, Mr Raja Segar went the extra mile
to support NUS TLS. Despite being the CEO of SINDA, he
was able to interact as a student with the members of NUS
TLS as Saadhana is a project that is organised and carried
out by university students for the community at large. At
the end of June this year, Mr Raja Segar would be bidding
farewell to his current position of CEO of SINDA At this
juncture, NUS TLS would like to thank Mr Raja Segar for
his never ending support to us and most importantly having the faith in NUS TLS.
At this moment, we would like to warmly welcome Mr Kumaran Barathan who would be taking over
the position of CEO from the 1st of July this year. We believe that his experience and expertise would prove useful
for SINDA to further improve its services to the Indian
community. Both SINDA and NUS TLS are organisations
that have good relationships. This was possible due to accumulated goodwill over the years. Both these organisations have a fond interest in ensuring the social and educational upliftment of the Indian community in Singapore.
As such, we are ready to work together to further engage
the Indian community through various projects in the upcoming years.
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