Suffocating in Male’

September 29, 2008 at 5:04 am (Uncategorized)

I was going through my flickr and this is one photo thats keep in the edge of my seat.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ennovativethinker

Recurringdreams, this picture is specially posted for your concern which you showed in my previous pic of a close-up image of this expatriate worker watching our fire drill.

Well foremost, to make the living conditions of the expatriate workers more satisfying don’t you think we the normal citizen of Maldives should have more spacious place, atleast a place where you can breath freely?

In every country the first demand is to make the normal citizen experience before hand the aliens to the country experience all this special previlages.

Right now, it’s male’ the only island in Maldives where you can get a better health access and a better job access with all your basic commodities available just next door. If you check in to one of the typical house and ask them to evacuate the house, then prior to the furniture been taken out of the house, a lorry/pickup full of persons would be coming out of the house. There is no particular standard put into this rental houses. A house which doesn’t have anything can charge you more 10,000 MRF, which is the cheapest now for a 2 room apartment/house and similarly you can find a good house with nice structure for the same price or much higher price. It fluctuates like how the dollars rates are going up/down in other countries but here the price never falls but always rise in case of the rent. If a company announce that they are going to raise the salary by 20%, the next day the taxi rate would be up by 50% and all the other commodities – WHO IS GOING TO CHECK ON THIS? And if this is the case then your salary increase doesn’t help much but just let the other low income earners suffer.

First get your country clean and then think about others – All this labours who are here? Why are they here? What are they doing? Are they doing something extra ordinary that a Maldivian cannot do? If we can do the same thing then why isn’t a Maldivian coming front? Do we loose our prestige and reputation by doing what they are doing?

A simple example: A man who hires two barbers and runs a barber shop gets around 3000 MRF every month from the shop. He pays both the expatriate workers 1000 MRF each and he saves 1000 MRF. Wow that’s some profit, but does he think that his actually profit that month is just less than 500 MRF after cutting the electricity bill, feeding them and other expenditures incurred during the month just for the shop. Now imagine a similar situation where he is the barber himself and gets 3000 MRF and if he owns a shop & he let his wife run it or when no customer for his barber shop, he can run it. Now from this 3000 MRF his expenditure would still be the less as he doesnt have to pay himself salary or take into account his deed – and that means he earns more than 2000 MRF net profit.

this can go on and on….