Kuwait’s Parliament clears expat bill, eight lakh Indians may be forced to leave
By MYBRANDBOOK
Kuwait’s National Assembly’s (Parliament) the legal and legislative committee has approved a draft expat quota bill which could result in eight lakh Indians leaving the country.
According to the committee, the draft bill is constitutional and seeks to limit the number of Indians to 15 per cent of the population. It will now be transferred to the respective committee so that a comprehensive plan is created. The move comes a month after Kuwait’s Prime Minister had said that the country’s expatriate population should be reduced from 70 to 30% of the total.
“We have a future challenge to redress this imbalance,” Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah told a local media publication, and the statement was released by state-run Kuwait News Agency or KUNA.
According to government data cited by local news outlets, foreigners account for 3.4 million of Kuwait’s 4.8 million populations.
Local media reports say that the new bill could see eight lakh Indians leaving Kuwait, “as the Indian community constitutes the largest expat community in Kuwait, totalling 1.45 million”.
There are, however, many critics of the quota approach propounded by some of the Kuwaiti lawmakers since the Prime Minister’s statement.
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