800,000 Indians may be forced to leave as Kuwait approves expat bill

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A total of 0.8 million Indians could be forced to leave Kuwait as the country's National Assembly committee has approved a draft expat quota bill seeking to reduce the number of foreign workers in the Gulf country.


The National Assembly’s legal and legislative committee has determined that the expat quota bill is constitutional.

According to the bill, Indians should not exceed 15% of the Kuwait's total population. This could result in 8,00,000 Indians leaving Kuwait, as the Indian community constitutes the largest expat community in the country, totalling as 1.45 million, The Hindu reported.

The current population of Kuwait is 4.3 million, with Kuwaitis making up 1.3 million of the population, and expats accounting for 3 million.

It was proposed by Kuwait’s Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah last month to reduce the number of expats from 70% to 30% of the population.

Amid a slump in oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a spike in anti-expat rhetoric as lawmakers and government officials call for reducing the number of foreigners in Kuwait.

Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem told Kuwait TV that he and a group of lawmakers will submit to the Assembly a comprehensive draft law calling for a gradual reduction of expats in Kuwait.

Terming population structure as a real problem, the speaker said 70 % of the population constitutes of expats, adding that what is more serious is that 1.3 million of the 3.35 million expats “are either illiterate or can merely read and write”, the people Kuwait does not really need, the Kuwait Times reported.

“I understand that we recruit doctors and skilled manpower and not unskilled labourers. This is an indication that there is a distortion. Visa traders have contributed to increasing this figure, Mr Ghanem said.

According to the Indian embassy in Kuwait, there are about 28,000 Indians working for the Kuwaiti Government in various jobs like nurses, engineers in national oil companies and a few as scientists,

The story was originally published in The Hindu.

 

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[Aslan]

Indians must be kicked out of all Muslim countries as they pose a threat to the security of these countries.There is no shortage of skilled and non-skilled workers in the Muslim world so why are Indians hired in the first place?.Muslims leaders should see what Hindu extremist write on social media about Muslims and Islam.

 

[stoic]

Airlift 3 - starring Akshay Kumar and 800,0000 train track shitters.

 

[Citizen X]

Indians must be kicked out of all Muslim countries as they pose a threat to the security of these countries.There is no shortage of skilled and non-skilled workers in the Muslim world so why are Indians hired in the first place?.Muslims leaders should see what Hindu extremist write on social media about Muslims and Islam.

But then who will do all the menial jobs? Majority of them are done by Indians at piss poor pay no one else is willing to accept. But if they get ticked off enough they will do it. Few years ago they deported 1000s of Shia even suspected of having any remote link with Iran, some with as little as 48hr notice.

 

[Masud Javed]

The downfall of Arab monarchy has started!

 

[Aslan]

But then who will do all the menial jobs? Majority of them are done by Indians at piss poor pay no one else is willing to accept. But if they get ticked off enough they will do it. Few years ago they deported 1000s of Shia even suspected of having any remote link with Iran, some with as little as 48hr notice.

Bangladeshis,Pakistanis and others can replace them.

 

[Citizen X]

Bangladeshis,Pakistanis and others can replace them.

Like I said Pakistanis and most other nationalities will not do those jobs at that pay. You know those labourers who get up before the crack of dawn and do menial labour jobs in this bloody heat all day long till the sunsets, get paid around $190 per month. Live 4 to 6 in small rooms like chickens in crowded specially built labour camps areas outside the city.

 

[Hussain1967]

Pakistani workers will suffer too due to that proposed bill because they want to reduces foreign workers.

 

[Imranpak]

To most racist Arabs there is no difference between a Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian worker.

 

[farooqak]

Pakistanis were out of Kuwait years ago, India will an impact now