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DEC panel discusses special needs policy, Emiratisation
The government will take measures to look after people with special needs, decided a meeting of the Social Development Committee, an affiliate of the Dubai Executive Council (DEC), on Wednesday.
Presided over by Major-General Mohammed Ahmed Al Marri, Director-General of the Directorate for Residency and Foreigners Affairs, and attended by Abdulla Al Shaibani, Secretary-General of the DEC, the meeting discussed three topics.
The committee said the policy was designed to ensure people with special needs had protection from any harm and that they get their given rights through clear organisational rules, social awareness. The policy is based on a slew of principles, including respect to human nature, equal opportunities, complete and effective participation in the society. The policy generally aims at creating a climate that supports protection of the specially abled from damage and discrimination. The panel reviewed the components of the policy, and the initiatives suggested to be carried out, to achieve the objectives according to the social development of Dubai Strategic Plan 2015.
The committee also discussed the Emiratisation and human development, and stressed on listing the topic as a full-fledged policy among its agenda for 2012, keeping in line with the directives of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, who declared 2013 as the year for Emiratisation.
The policy on preserving and protecting the local heritage was another major issue discussed. The policy is based on three principles, the first pertains to taking all feasible measures to confront the sneaking of the alien legacies into the country to tarnish and destroy the local heritage.
The second principle focused on the concept that the protection and preserving of the local heritage will not be accomplished unless the local society embraced the spirit of the heritage and be aware of their essence and significance. The third principle tackles revising and developing the local legacies with the aim of spreading the native heritage.
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