Maintaining Public Health

Hawker Centres & Markets continued to be upgraded

NEA also continued with its ambitious 10-year hawker centres upgrading programme (HUP) for cleaner, brighter, airier and more easily maintained centres. Upgrading include re-tiling, enlarging stalls, improving toilets and refuse bin centres, and overhauling ventilation, electrical, exhaust and plumbing systems. Some centres are completely rebuilt.

To date, 40 centres have been upgraded since the programme started in 2001. This effort has certainly paid off as a recent survey has revealed that customers were happy with the upgraded centres and indicated they would patronise them more often.