Kuwaiti youth keen to achieve development programs: SCPD
KUWAIT: The Supreme Council for Planning and Development (SCPD) said on Thursday that Kuwaiti youth is currently sparing no effort to achieve several development programs, calling citizens to await development plans’ promising outcomes.
There are several other state bodies that interacted with SCPD to follow-up with results of the development plans, Khaled Mahdi, Assistant SecretaryGeneral of SCPD’s General Secretariat, said in a press conference. Mahdi stressed the importance of commitment to prepare monthly reports that inform all sides on latest updates regarding development programs, confirming the General Secretariat’s efforts to raise awareness in the public on the development plans, actions to activate its role in following present and future plans, and commitment to implement the Council’s recommendations.
Meanwhile, Mahdi indicated that the General Secretariat has recently conducted field visits to several project sites that made a notable progress in achieving these projects, calling media sources to activate its positive role and highlight efforts exerted by workers and organizers of development plans’ projects.
In the past period, the Council’s follow-up teams have inspected a number of strategic projects in the country, listed within the annual plan 2015/2016, including expansion of three hospitals; Adan, Sabah, and Frawaniya, Mahdi said, adding that achievement pace of these projects is currently proceeding in accordance with their time frame.
The team also visited Al-Zour refinery, in which large part of the project’s area has been reclaimed with a total achievement ratio of 13 percent, he said, adding that achievement ratio for the area’s soil treatment project is 50 percent and it is set for completion by mid2016. Other field trips also included the environmental fuel project, which is currently proceeding on good pace as drilling started, concrete has been laid, and contracts were signed, Mahdi said.
The SCPD team also visited the Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) to inspect the “Olefins 3” project, which is the largest among other developmental projects as it is expected to attain highest revenues for the country’s treasury by producing 12 industrial products, he added, noting that the project remains under initial study as the Company received the project’s land from Kuwait Municipality last July. On Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Bridge project, Mahdi said that achievement ratio for this project is currently 37 pct, expecting its completion by end of 2017 or by November 2018.
A significant number of data has been updated in SCPD’s automated follow-up system to allow bodies in the country to follow the development plan automatically, he said, indicating that this would help in following projects and submitting their monthly reports to the Cabinet. — KUNA