Cabinet approves Bt2.9Bn for free student lunches next academic year

[webfact]

 

The cabinet has approved Bt2.95 billion for a free lunch program for the 2025 academic year. This will benefit 575,983 students attending 7,344 schools across the country.

 

Karom Pholpornklang, the deputy government spokesman, said that the program will cover 6,855 schools under the supervision of the Office of the Basic Education Commission, 376 under the Local Administration Department, 109 schools under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and four schools run by the Border Patrol Police.

 

With an annual budget of Bt2.95 billion, he said that the average budget for lunch per head is Bt24 per day for the 200 days of the academic year.

 

Source: Thai PBS 2024-03-27

 

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[jacko45k]

Haven't we had a lot of cases of people stealing the budget and the kids getting extremely poor meals, and a few cases of food poisoning over prior years?

[ezzra]

2.9 billion for a bit of rice some pork and veggies ? why, who's the cook? the french chef Joel Robuchon?

 

[Foxx]

7 minutes ago, ezzra said:

why, who's the cook? the french chef Joel Robuchon?

 

Hardly.  He's dead.

[ezzra]

1 minute ago, Foxx said:

 

Hardly.  He's dead.

My point exactly, with so much money they can bring him back to life already...

[bamnutsak]

Former school director gets 192 years in prison over school lunch scandal

 

The former director of a kindergarten, in Thailand’s southern province of Surat Thani, has been sentenced to 192 years in prison, without suspension, for cheating children out of their free lunch funding, by providing them with just rice noodles and fish sauce.

 

The court found Somchao Sitthichen, former director of Ban Tha Mai School in Tha Chana District guilty on 77 counts of fraud and sentenced him to five years on each count, or 385 years in total.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/former-school-director-gets-192-years-in-prison-over-school-lunch-scandal/

 

 

 

NACC keeps close eyes on Student Lunch Project Fund’s fraud as allegations of corruption have re-surfaced, causing malnutrition among Thai children

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/pr-news/more/pr-news/40036416

[brianthainess]

Yippee, even more money to line our own pockets.  

[Tropicalevo]

3 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

Yippee, even more money to line our own pockets.  

Sad but so bluddy true

[Artisi]

575,983 students x 24Bht x 200 days is a couple of Baht short or 2.95 B Bht. but near enough as there is some slack for pockets and commissions etc. 

[DPKANKAN]

2 hours ago, Artisi said:

575,983 students x 24Bht x 200 days is a couple of Baht short or 2.95 B Bht. but near enough as there is some slack for pockets and commissions etc. 

Also if a school is registered, but does not have 50 children, they do not get any funding!!

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The cabinet has approved Bt2.95 billion for a free lunch program for the 2025 academic year. This will benefit 575,983 students attending 7,344 schools across the country.

I wonder if that will manifest itself onto the plate.

[Artisi]

26 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I wonder if that will manifest itself onto the plate.

Yes, by unlikely the kids lunch plates