Maldives Government to Introduce New Measures to Consolidate Expatriate Record Keeping

 21 June 2011, Ref: 2011-447

The Cabinet has today finalized a range of measures to consolidate and efficiently organize records on expatriate workers in the Maldives.

These measures include building a new expatriate information system, and developing new infrastructure for the information system to be used in the Ministry of Human Resources, Youth and Sports and the Department of Immigration and Emigration.

In developing the infrastructure, the Cabinet assigned the National Centre for Information Technology (NCIT) to oversee the agreement between the Department of Immigration and Emigration and Nexbis of Malaysia to install a new border control system in the Maldives.

The Cabinet also mandated the regulation of information system used in different institutions for expatriate record keeping to NCIT.

Measures decided to strengthen expatriate record keeping include selecting a joint team between the President’s Office and NCIT to coordinate security of the expatriate information systems used in different institutions.

These measures also include creating a data map to standardize expatriate records management between relevant government agencies.

In addition, the Cabinet today decided to craft a single expatriate record keeping framework for government agencies and introduce special measures to validate the authenticity of records in the system.

In today’s meeting, the Cabinet approved the registration of South Asia Initiative to End Violence Against Children (SAIEVAC) in the Maldives.

SAIEVAC is a joint initiative between the governments of SAARC member countries, relevant UN agencies, and other international agencies with a vision that all children, girls and boys, throughout South Asia enjoy their right to an environment free from all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation, neglect and discrimination.

Speaking on the matter registering SAIEVAC in the Maldives, Cabinet members noted the absence of a regional body to protect child rights in the South Asia region, and promote the implementation of SAARC conventions and protocols on child protection.

They underlined that registering such a body in the Maldives, while a Maldivian serves as the Secretary-General of SAARC, would demonstrate the Maldivian government’s commitment to protect children and child rights.

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Bus stops, stands set up in Maldivian capital

“A bus stop only has a post with a sign written as ‘bus hutti’ [in local Dhivehi language]. We will set up bus stands after determining the number of people who wait for buses at the bus stops. Despite the fact that we’ve only set up a trial bus stand near Nalahiya Hotel, we’ll establish more after the trial,” the official said.

The official, who revealed that the company expects to begin the service next week, said 15 bus stops would be established in Male before beginning the service.

The buses are set to initially use two routes to travel from Villingili ferry terminal to Hulhumale ferry terminal; the first route consists of Orchid Magu and Fareedee Magu while buses would use Majeedee Magu and Ameenee Magu as the second route.




The official, however, said the initial routes would be changed after sometime.

“We’ll change the routes for trial,” the official said.

MVK, which will charge Rf5 per passenger, will use 10 buses to provide the service from 6am to 12am every day, the official added.