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Kuwaiti Government activates contingency plan for further heavy rain

KUWAIT, Nov 20 (KUNA) -- The Government is activating the contingency plan in full in anticipation of further rainfalls, a senior official announced on Tuesday.

Dr. Jenan Boushehri, the Minister of State for Housing Affairs and Minister of State for Services, said in a statement that the Ministry of Public Works had formed an investigation panel to gather information about the damage, inflicted in the latest bout of rainfall in the roads and the infrastructure.

This commission's jurisdictions include inspecting and following up on the damage at Sabah Al-Ahmad residential district, said Minister Boushehri after she emerged from a meeting with the parliamentary housing affairs committee.
Elaborating, she said that the Public Housing Welfare Authority formed special teams to determine the damage in the infrastructure at Sabah Al-Ahmad district and a full report in this regard had been submitted to the public works minister.
On compensating citizens whose properties were damaged in the recent deluge, Boushehri said the cabinet decided, at its session on Monday, to task a team, chaired by Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Sebeeh, to follow up on the issue and receive complaints. (end) ak.rk