KUWAIT CITY, March 1: Kuwait Municipality has approved the request of the Justice Ministry to allocate a site measuring 6,000 square meters with dimensions of 100 by 60 meters in Mubarak Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber, Block Seven for the establishment of the Expert Affairs Department building in Hawally Governorate. The newspaper obtained a copy of the Municipality’s statement regarding the request, approved by its acting Director General Manal Al-Asfour. It stressed the need to provide parking spaces within the site’s boundaries, submit a traffic study before licensing the building, fulfill the requirements stated in the responses of the members of the Subcommittee for Public Facilities and Services at its meeting held on March 26, 2024 and coordinate with them before implementing the project.

This is in addition to authorizing the competent departments to modify the dimensions and area of the site by no more than the designated sizes in the event of conflict with any existing infrastructure s or for regulatory reasons. On the other hand, the Ministry of Justice submitted a letter to the director general of the Municipality on Sept 2, 2020; requesting the allocation of sites in all governorates for the establishment of an independent building for each of these governorate’s experts affairs units (Capital, Hawally, Ahmadi, Jahra and Mubarak Al-Kabeer), including the parking lots. This is based on Ministerial Resolution No. 146/2017 on streamlining the organizational structure of the Experts Department and raising it to the level of general department, which is currently located in rented buildings that do not accommodate the new organizational structure, future vision and increasing needs; hence, the need for the establishment of an independent building in each governorate to manage the experts’ affairs. Based on prior coordination between the Ministry of Justice and the Municipality, plots were allocated in the governorates, including the Hawally Governorate measuring 6,000 square meters mentioned above, The proposed site in Jahra Governorate is not less than 5,000 square meters; the one in Mahboula measures 5,000 for Ahmadi Governorate, and 5,000 square meters in Abu Futaira for Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate.

By Inaas Awadh
Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff