Since the beginning of 2014, Dibba Municipality has distributed 43 plots of land to Emiratis. The lands department received 4,014 applications in the same period, said Hassan Al Yamahi, director general of the municipality. Mr Al Yamahi told Al Ittihad, the Arabic-language sister newspaper of The National, that there are plans to construct a number of services, health and tourism projects as well as infrastructure projects in the city and its suburbs, to serve more than 60,000 citizens and residents. He said the municipality had recently allocated plots in Al Rahee, Al Bedyah, Al Halat and Al Ghob. Inspection campaigns have been organised in all areas inhabited by Emirati families to ensure bachelors are not residing in the same neighbourhoods. They have been asked to relocate to Al Mehlab and to the Industrial area, both defined as areas for bachelors’ housing.
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