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Bachelors’ PROBLEMS

Recently, we came to know though the media that a lot 
of bachelors in Sharjah have gone homeless after being evicted from ‘families-only’ 
residential zones.

As per the experience of my friends and relatives, there are flats and rooms cut of electricity and water in order to rush the transfer process. Is it necessary to separate families and bachelors from the residence areas? Are all crimes generated due to mixed living?

As we are aware most of the workers in the UAE are bachelors and earning low wages. Not only they share rooms in the residential areas because of low wages but also transportation to frequent to their workplace and back home.

My suggestions are:

1. Separate bachelors from family residence buildings and not from the living areas.

2. Arrange sufficient low 
cost buildings in all areas 
(not on the main roadside of industrial & non-industrial areas) at reasonable rent for low-income workers.

3. It should not be a 
bachelor colony in remote 
areas. It brings a lot of commutation problems.

4. A code of living standards should be abided by all — bachelors and families, respectively.

5. It is necessary to know 
by the authorities, how and 
on what type of contract 
these workers are here and about their living standard 
and wages they are receiving? If necessary minimum wages be reviewed, sympathetically.

-K P Muhammad, Abu Dhabi

The bachelors working and living in the UAE have some real problems to be sorted out. And one of them pertains to their accommodation. Though many of the industrial units in cooperation with the authorities concerned have done a great job in providing civic amenities to the workers, a lot more needs to be done.

Similarly, I would like to bring to fore another problem of profiling that individuals face when they go out to rent out premises. The manner in which they are made to suffer by getting a snub at the outset is quite unfortunate. Afterall, they are also out to rent out a facility after paying the required cost and bearing all the extra-expenses that matter in the deal. Then why this discrimination?

Ahmed Abbas Khan, Sharjah