Rebuilding of dilapidated houses being speeded up
AS the number of dilapidated houses in the capital is increasing, the Manama Municipal Council is speeding up the repair and rebuilding of these buildings, as part of the national programme launched under the directives of His Majesty the King, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, writes Naila Barakat. There are a number of houses in the capital that need to be evacuated and demolished as soon as possible. A total of 70 houses come under the urgent or dangerous houses category, said the Secretary of the Manama Council, Jassim Redha. “The Council’s Rehabilitation Committee for Old houses has managed to evacuate some of these dangerous houses. Among these, 24 crumbling houses have been evacuated and another 36 are in the process of evacuation,” he added. “The Council will soon receive the drawings and designs for these 24 houses from the Ministry of Works and Housing. The ministry has announced that it has a total of 500 old houses to be demolished across the country and soon it will put this project for tender. The 70 ‘urgent category’ houses in different parts of Manama will be reconstructed in this programme,” he added.