Although Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has vowed to revolutionize the city’s budgeting process, significant change is on hold as the budget plan for next year has already been prepared under his predecessor.

 

The 79-billion-baht draft budget plan for Bangkok was drawn up before Chadchart took the helm of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) late last month following a landslide election victory. The 79 billion baht in the budget plan is due to be spent in fiscal year 2023, which begins on October 1 this year.

 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Council (BMC) – which functions as the capital’s parliament, scrutinizing and voting on draft legislation – will hear the first reading of the budget draft on July 6 and 7.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/how-chadcharts-team-is-lifting-lid-on-bangkoks-murky-multibillion-baht-budget/

 

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Chadchart’s team is lifting lid on Bangkok’s murky multibillion-baht budget

If this is true, I hope that he has armed bodyguards.

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The 79-billion-baht draft budget plan for Bangkok was drawn up before Chadchart took the helm of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) late last month following a landslide election victory. The 79 billion baht in the budget plan is due to be spent in fiscal year 2023, which begins on October 1 this year.

The plan was drawn up prior to his win, but he can demand transparency on how it's spent.

Can always cancel the existing budget by canceling the programs funded. Then create a new budget funding what's needed.

I thought all budgets in Thailand were murky, including the national one.

Transparency is not a virtue in a corrupt way of doing business.