7-713: Rochor ( / r ɒ tʃ ʊər / ) is a planning area located within the Central Area of the Central Region of Singapore. Rochor shares boundaries with the following planning areas – Kallang to the north and east, Newton to the west, as well as Museum and the Downtown Core to the south. The Verge, formerly Tekka Mall , is the first and largest modern shopping centre at Little India in Rochor, Singapore, being opened in 2003. The Verge has two buildings,
14-692: Is on the same level, stalls sell fresh seafood, especially crabs from Sri Lanka , and vegetables. There are also many Chinese stalls selling vegetables that are specially flown in from India. Rochor MRT station is a Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown line Stage 2 in Singapore, formerly known as the Bukit Timah line. The station links the East West line and the North East line along
21-508: The Bukit Timah corridor, serving the commercial areas to the south of Little India . This station was originally planned to interchange itself but the plan was abandoned. This Singapore location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Planning Areas of Singapore Planning areas , also known as DGP areas or DGP zones , are the main urban planning and census divisions of Singapore delineated by
28-595: The Urban Redevelopment Authority . There are 55 of these areas, organised into five regions . A Development Guide Plan is then drawn up for each planning area, providing detailed planning guidelines for every plot of land throughout the country. The planning areas were first introduced in the early 1990s after the release of the 1991 Concept Plan. Since implementing these boundaries, other government ministries and departments have increasingly adopted them for administrative purposes. For example,
35-503: The Statistics Department of Singapore published its 2000 census data based on planning area boundaries for the first time, compared to using census divisions based on electoral boundaries for previous exercises. The Singapore Police Force 's (SPF) neighbourhood police centres have jurisdiction boundaries based on planning area boundaries when they were officially gazetted in 1999, as opposed to electoral divisions under
42-457: The main building and Chill @ (The Verge) . It is located on the southern part of Little India, with the main building is located on the junction of Serangoon Road and Sungei Road and the Chill @ The Verge is located on the junction of Perak Road and Sungei Road . Both of the buildings are separated by Clive Road and the mall lies opposite of Tekka Centre across Serangoon Road. On 16 July 2008,
49-470: The mall was revamped, which also brought about the name change from Tekka Mall to The Verge. Tekka Centre is a relatively smaller shopping centre in Little India, Rochor. On the ground floor is a hawker centre with stalls which sell Indian vegetarian meals, served on banana leaves or on stainless steel platters , besides Chinese vegetarian, North Indian and Malay food. At the wet market which
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