Years ago, the National Assembly placed obstacles in front of 15 legislative demands, and development was delayed
90 projects are behind schedule and 72% of the development plan has been obstructed and stopped since the past fiscal year.
55% of the projects are still in the implementation stages, 35% are in the preparation stages, 4% have not started yet, 4% are in the delivery stage, and 2% have been completed.
A study by Al-Shahed revealed that the development plan requires more than 60 pieces of legislation, 23 of which have been approved, while 22 pieces of legislation are still before the National Assembly, which means that the government has completed 73% of the legislative requirements and that the legislation that is still before the National Assembly requires issuance to ensure the progress of the development plan, which is : Draft fatwa and legislation law, draft development plan law 2024-2020-2025, law prohibiting conflicts of interest, amending the Anti-Corruption Authority law, draft law to restructure wages in the public sector, draft law amending the schedule accompanying Law No. 42 of 2006 redefining constituencies Election for membership of the National Assembly, a draft law amending some provisions of Law No. 37 of 2010 in the matter of regulating privatization programs and operations, a draft law on organized withdrawal from the Generations Fund, a draft law establishing the northern economic zone.
Among the legislation that is still before the National Assembly is also the amendment of the import law, the amendment of the foreigners law, the draft public debt law, the draft law approving the Gulf Cooperation Council agreement on value added, the draft law approving the Gulf Cooperation Council agreement on excise goods, the draft law on real estate financing for the credit bank A draft law amending the traffic law, a draft law on trade union organizations, amending the penal code, a draft law organizing public meetings and processions, a draft law on private security and guarding companies, amending the law organizing prisons, a draft law on charitable work. The total appropriations allocated after the amendment to the expenditure chapters of the budget for the fiscal year 2021/2022 for the 51 development plan projects amounted to about 648.2 million dinars, and the final account resulted in actual expenditures of about 453.7 million dinars, or 70.0% of the appropriations after the amendment, and achieved savings of about 194.5 million dinars, at a rate 30.0%, as the number of projects behind schedule reached 90 projects, out of 131 projects total plan projects, compared to 38 projects compatible with schedules. A study by Al-Shahed mentioned a comparison between the extent of compliance with the schedules of plan projects for the third quarter in the last three years. The comparison revealed that the delay rate in the same period increased from 49% in the third quarter of 2019-2020 to 61% in the third quarter of 2020-2021, then to 69% in the third quarter of 2021-2022. It indicated that 50% of the plan projects Despite the delay, it is still in the implementation phase, and 39% is in the preparatory phase, while 5% has not started yet, 4% is in the delivery phase, and 2% has been completed. As for projects that are late in implementation, I mentioned that they are as follows: Al-Mutlaa Residential City, Sabah Al-Salem University City, Municipal solid waste treatment (Kabad site), labor cities, South Jahra city, entertainment service center – Egaila, development of the eastern runway at Kuwait Airport, expansion of Kuwait International Airport Terminal 2, Public Warehouses and Border Crossings Company (Abdali) in addition to the projects of the Ministry of Health represented In new buildings at Farwaniya Hospital, the new Al-Sabah Hospital, and new buildings at Al-Adan Hospital. The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation recently formed a working group to prepare a unified black list at the level of the oil sector, which will be implemented in the oil companies once approved by the competent authority, noting that the types and categories of works and materials will be unified in the tenders and projects implemented by the oil sector companies, and that To facilitate the qualification and bidding processes for tenders and projects. Article 57 of the Tenders Law stipulates that the penalties imposed by the Central Tenders Committee on contractors and suppliers are: warning, category reduction, and finally removal from the register for a specific period or permanently.
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