Kuwait, consortium ink geoinformatics contract
Domestic labour offices planned
KUWAIT CITY, July 12, (Agencies): The Ministry of Finance signed on Tuesday an agreement with a consortium of firms to allow the consortium to develop IT approaches at identifying and codifying all real estate owned by the state of Kuwait.
The agreement helps the state of Kuwait survey and tabulate all pertinent information regarding state-owned properties and land and store this information in a hightech electronic fashion easily accessible to those seeking it, said the ministry’s undersecretary Khalifa Hamada in a statement he made at the signing of the agreement.
He added that the agreement calls for the consortium to complete its work in four years at a cost of KD 6.8 million.
The consortium is made up of the local Kuwait firm of Zak Solutions, the American company known as Excella Consulting, and a German consulting company.
Zak’s chairman Jaber Al-Kathemi said the consortium will prepare a geographical data base of land information based on satellite photography of the whole country using digital technology.
Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) will present a feasibility study to the Domestic Workers Company on July 28, reports Al-Anba daily quoting MP Kamel Al-Awadi.
Al-Awadi disclosed the KIA will meet with the director general of the Immigration Department, as well as representatives of the Social Affairs Ministry and Cooperative Societies Union, after the presentation of the study to discuss the legal steps that must be taken to officially declare the company and form its board of directors.
He said three domestic labor offices will be established in each governorate and they will be headquartered in cooperative societies in order to better serve the people. He also unveiled a plan to open such offices in the service centers in the future.
The Ministry of Health has cancelled the decision to terminate Bedoun and expatriate nurses, reports Al-Anba daily quoting Kuwait Nursing Association Chairperson Bandar Al-Enzi.
In a press statement, Al-Enzi disclosed the association had earlier met Undersecretary Dr Khalid Al-Sahlawi who promised to address the problems of Bedoun and expatriate nurses who were laid off by the ministry. He then praised the step taken by Al-Sahlawi to rescind the decision.