The Reconstruction Of Mubarakiya Market Begins

The members of the committee appointed to examine the restoration of the burned area of the Mubarakiya Market have chosen to entrust the project to the Kuwait Municipality, according to the committee.

Personnel from the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, and Public Authority for Civil Information, Kuwait Municipality, and National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters are among the committee members. During the meeting, the Ministry of Finance shared its vision for the Mubarakiya area and called for an economic study to invest in the site's reconstruction using a BOT system to recover the money spent on it.

The Ministry of Finance believes that investing in the site would help the state achieve its income goals, predicting that the impacted area will be about 5,000 square metres of the overall site size.

In the event that the owners of private property in Mubarakiya refused to follow the concept of development, the Finance Ministry ordered the Kuwait Municipality and the Ministry of Justice to identify the private property, recommending the use of the 1964 Expropriation Law for the Public Benefit.

Omar Al-Sharqawi, the Ministry of Justice's Undersecretary, stated that the ministry has worked with the Kuwait Municipality to look for anything that has been registered in the real estate properties list in order to identify the owners of the property through the number of each plot in order to extract all information related to the ownership of those plots, pending their response, while the Minister of Finance inquired about the owners of private property if they have the right to object to the reconstruction plan for the Mubarakiya area, and if the government has the right to rebuild without contacting them by applying the expropriation law for the benefit of the public and the extent of the legality of this matter, given the length of time that it may take to account for the data of those affected.

In terms of commercial licenses, Muhammad Al-Enezi, the Acting Undersecretary of the Ministry of Commerce, said that coordination had been established with the Public Authority Civil Information in order to extract the automated numbers of the shops affected by the Mubarakiya fire so that they could obtain these licenses.

The Kuwait Municipality had approached the PACI with a request to give them the automated numbers of the destroyed stores, along with a drawing identifying their positions in the Mubarakiya district, according to PACI Director-General Musaed Al-Asousi.

The Kuwait Municipality was given the necessary automated numbers, as well as the committee. With this data on a flash memory chip, he proposed the presence of checkpoints that supervise the violating shops in the Mubarakiya area to warn them, and then close those shops in the event of non-response, and also indicated that there had been previous discussions with the Ministry of Justice and the Kuwait Municipality to approve the automatic number in all documents, and the Secretary-General.

Dr Issa Al-Ansari, Secretary-General of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, stated that the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters' role in this matter is limited to supervision only, as the Council has no shops damaged in the Mubarakiya fire, and also confirmed that the Council is fully prepared to assist and advise the rest of the authorities in the reconstruction of the Mubarak.

Due to the need for more time to make the survey plan and check it before circulating it to the rest of the authorities, the Kuwait Municipality's Deputy Director-General of the Projects Sector, Eng. Nadia Al-Shraideh, a preliminary report from the Kuwait Municipality for the reconstruction of the burned part of the Mubarakiya market through the technical office PACE, due to the need for more time to make the survey plan and check it before circulating it to the rest of the authorities, and after receiving automated numbers from PACI, there were many fraudulent business licenses discovered, and the Kuwait Municipality is awaiting the report of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, which will establish the true commercial licenses that were given and check the legitimacy of all information, in collaboration with the PACI.

The following suggestions were made at the meeting:

►Communication and cooperation amongst authorities to ensure that all data and reports are completed

►Assigning the Kuwait Municipality the task of adopting the first proposal it provided

► According to the Technical Office's research, the burnt portion of Souk Al Mubarakiya should be rebuilt.

►Providing the committee with the Mubarakiya area's detailed municipal maps and a report on its growth.

►appointing the NCCAL to work with academic experts at Kuwait University to give the committee with their perspectives on the Mubarakiya Market's reconstruction

► appointing a committee made up of many entities to discover breaching stores

► designating a single organization to be in charge of the Mubarakiya area's security and safety, as well as the management of privately-held stores.

►Obtain legal advice from the committee on requiring owners to build if they oppose

►The ability to use the automated number in all papers and associate it with all parties

 

 

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