Knowledge is the next stop with RTA's 'chair'

Mattar Al Tayer, Jamal bin Huwaireb and other officials being briefed about the Knowledge Chair.

A 'Knowledge Chair' has been installed in the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) customer service centre in Umm Ramool. The Knowledge Chair is a mini library comprising recent publications in fields like management, innovation, children's stories and novels. Books are placed in circular shelves with a chair placed in the centre.
Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of RTA, and Jamal bin Huwaireb, Managing Director of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF), also launched the Public Transport Library at the Emirates Metro station.
The RTA is the first government entity to own five knowledge chairs in collaboration with the MBRF. The chairs will be distributed in three locations - two chairs in Rashidiya and Abu Hail bus stations; two in customer service centres at Umm Romool and Al Barsha; and one in Public Transport Agency, Muhaisna.
The chair has been designed in such a way that it can be shifted to different locations to broaden the benefits of the initiative to encourage people to read more.
Al Tayer and bin Huwaireb were also shown a rare volume of the collections of the famous Arab poet Al Mutanabbi that can be traced back to the 11th Hijri century. It is a golden copy with fine floral decorations written in Al Naskh calligraphy.
The launches came as part of the second edition of the RTA's 'Read More' initiative, which is in line with the directives of the President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, as endorsed by the Council of Ministers chaired by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to designate 2016 as the Year of Reading.
The Read More initiative also fits with the Arab Reading Challenge launched by Shaikh Mohammed that engages more than one million students to read more than 50 million books in their academic year. -reporters@khaleejtimes.com