DOHA: A haven for low-income single workers, Al Khor city is waiting for the law banning labour lodgings to be removed from residential areas to be implemented.
Senior municipal officials from the city say they would be counting on the cooperation of property owners to relocate the thousands of menial single workers who live in labour camps located in residential areas. The city which plans to soon have Qatar's largest public park--with a sprawling golf club and a mini-zoo within it--has reserved some areas of the picturesque Corniche for single workers.
Others areas--and some gardens in the city as well--have been reserved for families. The city also faced the problem of encroachments on public property but blockades to major thoroughfares have been cleared, the director of Al Khor-Dhakhira municipality, Rashid Saeed Al Nuaimi, told a local Arabic daily.
Construction companies were dumping their debris on the roadside in the city so the civic authorities deputed an official to keep a watch in the night.
The menace is over thanks to the night vigil but the civic body had to clear some 120 truckloads of the debris to clean up the roads, said Al Nuaimi.
© The Peninsula 2010
