AAP govt seeks Singapore’s help!

NEW DELHI: The AAP government has sought Singapore’s help for setting up a free wi-fi facility across the national capital, one of its big-ticket poll promises on which it has made a little progress.
The assistance was sought during a meeting that party vice chairman Ashish Khetan had on Sunday with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) ‘to learn on the issue of citywide public wi-fi, while on a three-day visit to the city state.
Earlier, the Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC), an advisory body of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, had written to the IDA, which is under Singapore’s ministry of communications and information’We would love to meet you or any other top executive or officer at IDA that you recommend to learn more about the Singaporean model of governance, especially on the issue of citywide public wi-fi,’ the DDC had written. The panel is chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The communication further state ‘ that ‘Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government wants to learn from Singapore’s government, private sector, technology experts and political leaders as we attempt to change the paradigm of governance in Delhi.’