The mobile cabinet approved, in principle, 13 small projects today, worth an estimated 300 million baht, proposed by northern provinces. It also ordered the Ministry of Transport to conduct a feasibility study for an airport for Phayao province.

 

The prime minister also instructed the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to speed up the establishment of an office in Phayao in the fourth quarter of this year and to declare Phayao as a special zone for sustainable tourism.

 

Agriculture Minister Thammanat Prompao said that the governor of Phayao will seek cabinet approval for 100-million baht to fund an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the airport project, if the cabinet approves the airport project, estimated to cost about 3 billion baht.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-03-19

 

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This PM thinks that he is Father Christmas - throwing money everywhere.

Should be the way - throughout every province and to each their particular civil project situations. 

Though, I suspect that any of these infrastructural managements have little or no benefit to the provincial populations and their commons.....somewhere amongst the small print and hidden hands the usual circles are profiting. 

 

You know how that is - the way in which the world works.

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

worth an estimated 300 million baht, proposed by northern provinces.

If only it would ALL be spent on the projects; isn't 10% the usual skim estimate?