Bachelors packed like sardines

HUNDRED bachelors have reportedly been living in one house in the Al Wahidah area in Dubai. The lodging was on lease to an Asian expatriate, and he spared no effort in renting each and every inch of the house to earn enough money. A single bed too could have been shared for people working in different shifts.

By Catch Of The Day

Published: Mon 15 May 2006, 10:03 AM

Last updated: Sat 4 Apr 2015, 7:39 PM

We have repeatedly highlighted, in this column of Khaleej Times, that there are many infringements in re-renting traditional houses. The lease-holder mostly turns the dwelling into a camp, and stuffs it with a sea of different expatriates, hailing from different countries. Inhabitants, thus, live in a very unhygienic environment, and become prone to dangerous diseases — most likely viruses which can easily be carried from one person to another.

There should be proper and effective coordination between all bodies concerned — like municipalities, police, labour and residence departments — to check this menace. Intensive campaigns against such money-making rackets too should be carried out in all earnest. It is virtually impossible for people to live decently in such crowded tenements, which become, by and large, hideouts for law-breakers, residence and labour violators.

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