Until the change, only stallholders with rentals subsidised were allowed to assign their stall to non-relatives.- ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Non-subsidised hawker stallholders who wish to retire will now be able to pass on their stalls to non-relatives, in a new hawker succession scheme proposed by a workgroup set up to safeguard hawker culture in Singapore.
It is the first such scheme directly aimed at pairing new entrants with older ones for "succession", the National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Tuesday (Nov 24), directly tackling a problem that the industry has long been facing.
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