The record comprises of minutes, administrative papers and correspondences between the Public Works Department (PWD and the Ministry of the Environment, Hawkers Department, documenting a significant government initiative to modernise Singapore's street food vending system. The record detail expenditure approvals for improvement works to various markets and food centres, with emphasis on enhancing sanitary facilities. The record documents the relocation programme where hawkers were moved from temporary wooden structures known as ""look-up stalls"" into purpose-built, permanent hawker centres throughout Singapore, representing a major transformation in the nation's food vending infrastructure.
1978-1982
PWD 675 - -
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