Nurana Island plots left without roads or services

TDT | Manama

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Nurana Island has been left hanging for 15 years, with plot owners still paying the price while roads, sewerage and lighting remain absent, Services Committee chairman Mamdouh Al Saleh told Parliament yesterday.

He said plots had been sold and distributed in 2011, yet those who bought them were still waiting for the most basic works needed to build or live there.

The people bearing the cost, he said, were not residents but owners who had met their side of the bargain and were still left with bare land and little else.

“How can a citizen build or live on an island that lacks the most basic infrastructure?” Al Saleh said. “No roads, no sewerage, no lighting… nothing that makes it possible to start life there.”

He said some owners were still paying off loans after years of delay, despite no real work being carried out on site. That, he told the chamber, had left them in a hard and unfair position.

Al Saleh rejected the government’s reply to the urgent proposal on Nurana, saying it gave no firm answer and instead relied on old measures and open-ended dates tied to unclear steps. In practice, he said, that meant the delay was still going on.

The government said in its written reply that the aim of the proposal was already being met through planning, regulatory and executive steps already in force.