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TWELVE proposals were approved unanimously by MPs yesterday and referred to the Cabinet for review.
Of these, the nine urgent proposals are:
Stopping the Social Development Ministry from discontinuing the monthly anti-inflation allowance whenever Bahraini beneficiaries travel on a daily basis to the GCC countries or whenever there is a minimum pay rise in the monthly wage above BD1,000 with them asking for the amount to be just deducted;
Amending the Mazaya social housing financing scheme to ensure that pay rises don’t get reflected on the monthly instalment deductions that shouldn’t exceed 25 per cent of the wage;
- Employing all medical graduates in government hospitals or health centres or finding Tamkeen-supported jobs in the private medical sector;
- Employing all law graduates in ministries or government bodies or finding Tamkeen-supported jobs in private firms or companies;
- Employing Bahrainis with physical disabilities in jobs that don’t require movement in ministries and government bodies;
- Allowing civil servants to benefit from Tamkeen’s training and development programmes;
- Allowing a third fisherman to be listed per fishing licensing;
- Giving the 25pc wage-cut instalment treatment to all of those who have received housing services from 2011 until date;
- Establishing a new unified acceptance centre under the Education Ministry.
The three regular proposals are:
- Validating if expats receiving pensions living outside the country continuing to be eligible;
- Fixing Mazaya’s instalment deduction at 25pc from the date of receiving the service without pay rises being ever taken into the calculation at a later stage;
- Providing subsidised electricity and water for Bahraini businessmen to help lower operational costs and service costs on the people.
- Meanwhile, an urgent proposal to issue a statement on the success of the Arab League Summit held on Friday in Jeddah was also approved unanimously.
- Parliament Speaker Ahmed Al Musallam has been tasked to issue it on behalf of MPs.
Also approved unanimously was a mutual aviation agreement with Turkmenistan which was referred to the Shura Council for review.
MPs also unanimously approved amendments to the Fishing Organisation, Catching and Protection Law that would allow Bahraini relatives up to the third degree to accompany the licensed fishermen on board without being considered as crew or deducted from the allowed number on board.
(Third-degree relatives are a segment of the extended family and includes first cousins, great grandparents and great grandchildren.)
It will now be drafted by the Cabinet into a proper law and referred back to Parliament within six months.
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