Kuwait plans ‘labour cities’ to house 950,000
01 August 2020
Kuwait has announced plans to build ‘labour cities’ in various parts of the country for low-paid workers, preferably with the help of the private sector, reported Arab Times.
These facilities are mainly being set up to cater to those workers whose salary is less than KD200 ($648) per month, stated the report citing Ministry of Public Works.
The ministry held several sessions for local authorities in the state to discuss various options for implementing the workers cities project.
The first of these proposals was these projects should be implemented through the ministry, the second by the Public-Private Partnership Projects Authority, the third by the ministry and the partnership authority, and finally to assign the ministry to implement projects in conjunction with a government agency designated by the Council of Ministers.
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