Mesaieed needs an Indian school
Dear Sir,
I appreciate the initiative of HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi in building more schools to meet the educational needs of citizens and residents.
In this context, I would like to bring to his attention the plight of the Indian community in Mesaieed where they don’t have a community school like the Al Khor International School Indian Stream, which is managed by GEMS and owned by national companies RasGas and Qatargas to provide education for children of primarily their Indian employees in the township.
I request the Education Ministry and the state-run energy firm Qatar Petroleum (QP) and its subsidiaries in Mesaieed Industrial City (MIC) to jointly initiate a move to launch a similar school with classes from KG to 12th standard for the Indian community there.
At present, there is a primary school run by Qafco which serves the educational needs of Indian children in Mesaieed in a limited way since preference for admission in it is given to Qafco employees. Most members of the Mesaieed-based Indian community have to send their children to Doha or Al Wakrah, which is inconvenient because of the long commute.
A survey, which may be conducted jointly by the Education Ministry and MIC, will surely reveal the desperate need to start such a school in Mesaieed.
The school can be professionally managed but owned by MIC so that the entire Indian community in Mesaieed can benefit from the initiative.
Mesaieed resident, (Name and address supplied)
Shocking incident
Dear Sir,
The letter, “Bad experience with taxi driver”, (Gulf Times, March 2) was shocking indeed. It is unbelievable that such an incident could happen in Qatar which has a negligible crime rate.
For proper and swift action against such errant drivers, people must note down the taxi registration number before starting their journey to enable to identify them. All taxis should display the driver’s name, nationality and photograph and the cab number inside in a place that is easily visible to passengers. This will deter drivers from misbehaving with passengers or overcharging them.
The Ola taxi service has introduced in India a mobile app system linked to GPS. The control centre and anyone interested can identify a taxi’s location at any given time, using this system. This also helps people to get a taxi to come and collect them from any place. Since everything is electronically recorded, drivers will think twice before overcharging or misbehaving with passengers. Karwa may think about introducing such a system in Qatar.
P S Pai, PO Box 2642, Doha
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