KUWAIT CITY, June 20: The Ministry of Education will terminate the services of 101 non-Kuwaitis occupying administrative positions in a number of sectors in early July as per the rules and procedures on the Kuwaitization of government jobs.

Sources revealed the Administrative Sector asked all the other sectors to quickly submit the list of expatriate employees covered by the replacement policy according to the figures from the Civil Service Commission (CSC). Sources confirmed the Administrative Sector is now finalizing the list of the 101 non-Kuwaiti employees in preparation for coordination with the Ministry of Finance to freeze the contracts of non-Kuwaiti employees covered by the replacement policy from the ministry’s budget for fiscal 2020/2021 effective July 1.

Sources said the residents covered by the replacement policy in the Ministry of Education for this year are assigned in engineering, financial, educational, legal research, information systems, literature and information, and administrative support jobs. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Works has agreed to the request of the Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT), to allow local companies to enter as major contractors alongside international companies, to compete for a project to construct a wastewater purification plant in Al-Mutla’a City, provided these local companies have experience in such projects.

Informed sources in the ministry told the daily the ministry agreed to this condition, and its approval was sent to the Central Tenders Company, to prepare for the launch of the vital project that will serve the Al- Mutla’a area, pointing out that the CAPT had previously rejected this project because the ministry submitted it with a one-stage system for design and implementation.

The agency stipulated that the tender be launched in two separate phases, one for design and the other for implementation, according to Article 39 of the CTC Law, which stipulates the separation of design work from implementation. The sources say, the Ministry of Public Works has obtained the approval of the Ministry of Finance for the financial part of the project, which is expected to be completed in the 2022. The total value of the contract is 150 million dinars.