380,000 expat workers reside in Jleeb – ‘Need to hike fees for residency, other services’

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KUWAIT CITY, Oct 25: Farwaniya Committee of the Municipal Council announced that more than 380,000 expatriate workers reside in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh alone. This number increased from 280,000 recorded during the 2011 census at a growth rate of around five percent per year over a period of seven years, reports Al-Rai daily.

Based on this information, the Municipal Council member Mohammad Al-Raqeb stressed the need to increase the fees for residency and other services provided to expatriate workers. He said this proposal will help in reducing the concentration of expatriate workers in Jleeb Al- Shuyoukh area, and it will facilitate the gradual movement of marginal workers from the area.

At the end of a workshop that was recently organized in the Municipal Council to discuss the development of Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, the council member cited information from the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) as per which the number of workers in the area did not conform to the number registered in the authority’s system.

He explained that a large percentage of the workers are not registered as occupants of the buildings in the area, and vast majority of them are not working. Al-Raqeb stressed that any delay in evicting workers from this area during this period will lead to their increase in the subsequent years, insisting that the file will then become too complicated for the concerned authorities in the country to handle.

He appealed to the Council of Ministers to act fast in valuation and development of the area, considering its strategic significance, stressing that the area is unsuitable to accommodate a quarter of the population therein

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