Over 8 Lakh Indians to leave when Kuwait endorses an expat quota bill. The Gulf News has estimated that over 8 Lakh Indians could be forced to leave out of Kuwait by imposing a new law on expatriates. Committee proposed expat quota bill to limit the amount of international employees in the Gulf nation.
The draft bill on expat quota system, in which Indians should not reach 15 percent of the population, has been approved by the constitutional and parliamentary committees of the National Assembly of Kuwait.
Expats account for 3 million of the 4.3 million inhabitants of Kuwait. The study added that the Indian community is the largest expat group in Kuwait, reaching 1,45 million.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-expatriate rhetoric has been growing with legislators and public officials calling for a decline in the amount of immigrants in Kuwait.
Sheik Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, Prime minister Kuwait, announced a reduction in the number of expatriates from 70% to 30% of the population last month.
Kuwait Forces Out Indians
Moreover, in different occupations. Such as the nurses, engineers in national oil firms. And some as scientists. Furthermore, about 28,000 Indians are employed. For the Government of Kuwait. Also, the Indian embassy in Kuwait said. Many of the Indians (5,23 lakhs) are in private sector jobs. Which are still nearly 1.16 Lakh workers. There are approximately 60,000 Indian students in this country who study at 23 Indian schools.
Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and a coalition of lawmakers will give the Assembly a comprehensive plan for a law calling for a significant reduction in Kuwait’s expats, informed to Kuwait TV. In its proposed plan for a law. The Speaker proposed imposing a limit on the number of expatriates. The figures of whom must gradually decrease. Expatriates are set to be 70% this year. 65% next year, etc.
Kuwait is India’s main producer of receivables. India received approximately US$ 4.8 billion in remittances from Kuwait in 2018.
The disease has spread among migrant workers. But who stay in congested households. Which makes up the bulk of the Kuwait-based cases of virus. Kuwait has close to 50,000 cases according to the latest figures from John Hopkins University.
