His Highness Sheik Mohammed Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, propelled the “UAE Vision 2021” during a Cabinet meeting in 2010. (43)
The vision states that “In a strong and safe union, knowledgeable and innovative Emiratis will confidently build a competitive and resilient economy. They will thrive as a cohesive society bonded to its identity, and enjoy the highest standards of living within a nurturing and sustainable environment”. (44) This program will be regulated by The Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and the Future. (45)
The Vision plans to make the UAE one of the best nations on the planet by the year 2021 when the country commends the Golden Jubilee of its development as an alliance.
The vision is based on 6 pillars: (46)
- Firm Society and Preserved Identity: The UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda endeavors to save a firm society pleased with its personality and feeling of having a place. So, the vision will advance a comprehensive situation that coordinates all sections of society while safeguarding the UAE’s interesting society, legacy and customs and strengthens social and family union.
- Safe Public and Fair Judiciary: The UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda intends to make the UAE the most secure place on the planet.
- Competitive Knowledge Economy: The worldwide economy will witness noteworthy financial changes in the coming years, and the UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda plans to make the nation a noteworthy player at the global level. Therefore, it concentrates on making the UAE the finance, tourism and business capital for more than two billion individuals by transitioning to an information based economy, advancing advancement and innovative work, fortifying the administrative system for key divisions, and empowering high esteem including areas. These will enhance the nation’s business condition and increment its engaging quality to remote venture.
- First-Rate Education System: Instruction is a major component for the advancement of a country and the best interest in its childhood. Consequently, the UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda accentuates the advancement of a first-rate instruction framework, which will require a total change of the present training system and educating techniques.
- World-Class Healthcare: The National Agenda underlines the significance of preventive prescription and looks to diminish malignancy and way of life related sicknesses, for example, diabetes and cardiovascular ailments to guarantee a more extended, more advantageous life for residents.
- Sustainable Environment and Infrastructure: To do that, the UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda concentrates on enhancing the nature of air, protecting water assets, expanding the commitment of green development arranges. Moreover, as a pioneer of the green transformation, the UAE is aware of its obligation to defend nature and relieve the impacts of environmental change on its territory and biological communities so as to guarantee that future eras acquire an earth supportable world.
National Agenda Targets: (47)
- To set the measures for different governments and to be first worldwide in administrations.
- Change all schools and educational module to learning and increment interest in pre-school instruction.
- Make the UAE the most secure place on earth, and decrease the reaction time to crisis calls to a record time of four minutes.
- Increase the per capita net pay by 65% throughout the following seven years
- Turned into the principal universally in land, ocean and air infrastructure and the world’s first in simplicity of working together.
- Decrease the sitting tight time of qualification for lodging to two years from the date of utilization
- Increase Emiratization in the private area 10 times.
DUBAI PLAN 2021
Dubai Plan 2021 portrays the future of Dubai through comprehensive and corresponding points of view, beginning “the people and the society who have always been, and always will be, the bedrock of the city”. (48)
Dubai Plan 2021 is an arrangement that effects and includes everybody in Dubai; Emiratis, occupants, guests, government, organizations, universal associations, and others. Dubai Plan 2021 was produced more than 5 stages over a time of 1 year. (49)
The key standards for the advancement of Dubai Plan 2021 were: (50)
- Develop an arrangement that will drive Dubai to be among the best urban areas on the planet.
- Best Practice: Identify and embrace best practices in national key arranging.
- Estimation: Develop an arrangement that can be measured and surveyed by all constituents.
- Engagement: Adopt an advancement approach that draws in the different constituents and partners required in or influenced by Dubai Plan 2021.
- Dubai Vision focuses on 6 topics, each highlighting a gathering of vital formative goes for Dubai, and together framing the city’s vision for 2021. (51)
- The People: “City of Happy, Creative & Empowered People”.
- The Society: “An Inclusive & Cohesive Society”.
- The Experience: “The Preferred Place to Live, Work & Visit”.
- The Place: “A Smart & Sustainable City”.
- The Economy: “A Pivotal Hub in the Global Economy”.
- The Government: “A Pioneering and Excellent Government”.
Dubai Plan 2021 lines up with UAE Vision 2021 and the National Agenda key execution pointers, and supplements Dubai Strategic Plan 2015 (DSP 2015) propelled by Sheik Mohammed container Rashid in 2007, which gone for understanding the vision of Dubai under the motto “Dubai … Where the Future Begins” by planning the endeavors of all administration elements, through a typical system. Dubai Plan 2021 expects to strengthen Dubai situating as a worldwide focus and goal over various fields, projects, and tasks propelled as of late, which have included winning the privilege to have the World Expo 2020, the dispatch of the activity to change Dubai to end up noticeably the capital of the Islamic economy, and the dispatch of the Dubai Smart City technique.
Infrastructure is one of the primary pillars in the Dubai’s improvement accomplishments and it has been amazingly very much created to guarantee quickened development and help in initiating the Dubai Vision 2021. Thus, the Dubai Urban Development Master Plan 2020 are instrumental in accomplishing objective of Dubai vision plan 2021. (52) Dubai keeps on building up the foundation required for a complex capital city and numerous new activities are driven by its facilitating of the World Expo in 2020. A sum of Dh30 billion ($8.16 billion) will be spent on framework at the Expo site and in the city, at last profiting eras to come. (53)