The Kuwaiti Government has issued 35 resolutions and instructions since May 19 in line with guidelines by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah that has drawn the task map for the near future.
The Cabinet decisions cover a host of issues at diverse levels including four main files; development, financial and economic reforms, nationality, and combating corruption.
At the development level, the Cabinet began with endorsing a draft decree of forming the board of the central apparatus for public tenders, guided by instructions to double efforts, facilitate procedures, and speed up the endorsement of key ventures, as outlined in the government manifesto.
The Government has tasked relevant authorities to accelerate establishment and operation of Mubarak Al-Kabir Mina (port), stressed on the necessity of speedy work-out of accords with China, ahead of submission to the ministerial economic affairs commission to prepare a report in this respect.
Moreover, the Cabinet directed relevant ap
paratuses to speed up the pace of the tasks to accomplish vital ventures namely the railroad in the State of Kuwait, the development of the structural plan of Al-Sulaibikhat port and face lifting the sea-side region in Al-Jahraa.
Additionally, it has decided to form a commission to draw up the government task manifesto, and asked it to set priorities and timetables.
At the investment level, instructions had been issued to the Public Investment Authority and other concerned authorities to intensify efforts to multiply domestic businesses and create jobs for the youth.
As to the citizenship file, it had agreed during consecutive meetings to a number of minutes by the supreme commission for acquiring citizenship, addressing various cases where a number of people had been stripped of their Kuwaiti nationality, lost their citizenship, or obtained it by deception, counterfeiting or other illegal means.
While issuing stiff instructions to maintain justice, combat corruption, and bolster the overseeing apparatuse
s, the Government had taken legal measures to strip farmers who used plots of land for illegal purposes.
Along with the same approach, the Cabinet tasked the ministers, departments’ officials, and government apparatuses to execute recommendations included in the annual report of the government performance follow-up apparatus for 2023 and submit reports to the apparatus every three months.
To stem excessive expenditures, the council of ministers has tasked the Ministry of finance to pinpoint the avenues of funds’ misappropriations, set the measures that need to be taken to tackle it in tandem with the government directions while stressing that it is imperative to coordinate with the Audit Bureau for safeguarding the public funds.
In another vein, the Government has asked the Ministry of Health to coordinate with other public departments to carry out the national health survey.
The Government had arranged joint meetings aimed at boosting cooperation among ministries and affiliate entities as part of the app
roach to accelerate accomplishments and adopt flexible policies for sake of tangible accomplishments.
Furthermore, the Cabinet has adopted the “open door policy,” setting specific hours to receive ordinary citizens and advising officials to communicate closer with the nationals.
Among the concrete initial accomplishments was the November declaration about the availability of 15,000 jobs, declaring tenders for road overhaul, speeding up the digital transformation and steps for addressing energy issues and challenges.
“There is a huge volume of development enterprises on the path,” declared His Highness Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on May 28, affirming the top-level policy to accomplish ventures and put the wheels on the development track to move forward at the highest level of speed as possible.
Setting the breadlines of the new policy, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah announced at an extraordinary Cabinet session on May 15 the kick-off of a new phase
of serious and tasks, continuous giving for the homeland and the citizens for which “we have taken the oath to preserve their freedoms, interests and funds.”
Source: Kuwait News Agency