The role of grassroots is primarily to sell the PAP’s policies to the residents and of course to conduct activities for residents at discounts and to organise MPs’ a.k.a. Guess-of-Honor’s visit/s to the constituency. We are not paid any salary nor allowance but we do have perks such as FREE parking within our constituency (GRC), priority Primary 1 registration for our children, National Day parade tickets, visits to the Istana (National Day open house), free event makan-makan, free visits to the Zoological Gardens, just to name a few.
Chairmen are automatically members of the GRC Executive Committee and Town Council where meetings are champion by MP/MPs. As member of Town Council we are paid a monthly allowance of $300. The allowance is paid via the Town Council funds which is funded by residents. Full story
