PM Prayut visits Chiang Rai, Phrae to follow up on government measures

[webfact]

PM visits Chiang Rai, Phrae to follow up on government measures

 

   

CHIANG RAI, 18 March 2019 (NNT) - Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha visited Chiang Rai and Phrae provinces to follow up on government measures for low-income earners and mitigate forest fires and haze.

 

The premier paid the official visit to the northern provinces to follow up on the measures to help the low-income earners through the state welfare card and community forest projects and discussed the forest fire and haze mitigation measures.

 

He met with elderly persons and welfare cards holders at the University of the Third Age, a learning center for elderly persons to promote the living quality and happiness among elderly persons and health knowledge management from local wisdom and public health.

 

He traveled to Kok River Bridge to preside over the opening ceremony of the bridge, then observed an exhibition on the eastern city bypass road construction and road safety, and then at Chiang Rai provincial hall delivered his policies to government officials regarding forest fire and haze mitigation, the reduction of burning at farms and the promotion of common crop farming.

 

The premier traveled to Phrae province to preside over the rights holding documents to community delegates as part of the Community Forest project, and delivered personal booklets to persons eligible for community’s common crop farming method.

 

He visited Phrae Provincial Administrative Organization’s stadium where he followed up on progress in government projects.

 

The premier expressed concerns for the haze where the volume of airborne dust has risen in some areas, causing the air quality to start affecting the villagers’ health.

 

He instructed both civil and military agencies, as well as provincial disaster prevention and mitigation offices and participating private firms to carry out water mist spraying operations to wash down airborne particulate matter.

 

 

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[neeray]

It will be interesting to see if he does this type of “good will” visit in the future if he is “elected” as PM. 

Somehow, I don’t think so. 

[toenail]

Wait and see... will this visit be only a PR opportunity for speeches and photos or have substance? What concrete solutions does the PM have for stopping the farmers from burning their fields before planting season? Words or photos will not work

[sammieuk1]

The cynical may conclude he was just there to pick up some advanced ballot boxes for a recount ????

[sammieuk1]

14 minutes ago, toenail said:

Wait and see... will this visit be only a PR opportunity for speeches and photos or have substance? What concrete solutions does the PM have for stopping the farmers from burning their fields before planting season? Words or photos will not work

Reinforced concrete of the fields presumably ????

[Burma Bill]

Amazing how the smog must have suddenly disappeared - nobody wearing face masks!

[maxcorrigan]

6 hours ago, neeray said:

It will be interesting to see if he does this type of “good will” visit in the future if he is “elected” as PM. 

Somehow, I don’t think so. 

I think you should edit the "if" to "when" be more accurate!

[Rotweiler]

Maxc seems to have a better/good understanding of this "election".

[KhunBENQ]

9 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Amazing how the smog must have suddenly disappeared - nobody wearing face masks!

My thought too.

Guess had an oxygen mask in the limousine.

 

16 hours ago, webfact said:

carry out water mist spraying operations to wash down airborne particulate matter. 

Ineradicable ignorance.

[Dinobot]

The government is surely a part of the air pollution problem, allowing mass scale sale of wild mushrooms to China.