App shows progress at South Al-Mutlaa City project
KUWAIT: Recent images on the Kuwait Finder smartphone app showed much progress in construction works at the South Al-Mutlaa City project and that constructions were ahead of the schedule set by the housing welfare authority. The maps showed that the contractor working on the first contract has finished outlining main roads, said informed sources, noting that much of the construction of the 32 million sq m area and 143 km of roads, 61 intersections, 32 roundabouts, 13 bridges, 12 km of sewage lines and 3,500 manholes has been finished. Meanwhile, the technical team following up the second project of building the infrastructure needed for 18,519 land plots said that 4.2 percent of the work has already been completed, bearing in mind that the contractor started work in August.
The South Al-Mutlaa City is the largest housing project in Kuwait with 28,363 units, currently being executed in cooperation with international experts. By the end of last June, the Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW) has signed a contract of about KD 288 million with the Italian Salini Costruttori engineering company and Turkey’s Kolin group to build the city’s infrastructure. The project will also see the floating of 60 tenders for construction including public utilities and power plants.
Government jobs
The head of the grievances and complaints committee at the National Assembly MP Hamdan Al-Azmi said the committee will propose a bill on regulating the acceptance of citizens applying for government jobs and adjusting some judicial regulation law articles. Azmi added that the committee had received various complaints from young citizens who had applied for the jobs of legal investigators and prosecutors, but were rejected while less-qualified people were appointed. He added that the justice ministry changed the conditions several times, including the minimum grades required and the age limit.