Thai junta monitors budget allocations to ensure no corruption and kickbacks

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Military junta monitors budget allocations of local administrations to ensure no corruption and kickbacks



BANGKOK: -- The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is steadily making progress in its efforts to tackle budget allocations for local administrations.

The effort is aimed at making the process fair and transparent and free of corruption.

Armed Forces chief-of-staff General Sirichai Distakun, as chairman of the committee in charge of budget allocation for local administrations for the year 2015, led a team of officials to Saraburi Monday to review reports on budgetary allocations.

He was there to ensure that the allocations were to be used in achieving concrete objectives that were of the maximum benefit to the public.

After the meeting, the general made a visit to the 12th sub-district in Phra Buddhabat area to personally inspect and receive recommendations on the planned landfill garbage disposal system.

The Phra Buddhabat municipality office is asking for a budget of more than 400 million baht for the project. The committee will collect as much information as possible so that its findings can be forwarded to the NCPO for final judgment.

The NCPO is taking on the issue of budget allocations for local administrations for the year 2015 after receiving reports that many districts budget allocations which are 200 billion baht in total have been misused and that there was widespread corruption by local politicians.

The reports have documented that no less than 30 % of all proposed projects are corrupted by kick-backs to local politicians amounting to around 60 billion baht.

More importantly, it has been found that many of these proposed projects have no correlation to the needs of the local people.

This committee that has been set up by the NCPO is tasked with reviewing all proposals for projects by local administrations in the country.

The committee will carry out intense scrutiny of all proposals to ascertain which project is relevant and addresses the immediate needs of local citizens.

Any proposals that are suspected or based on unfounded recommendations will have to be reviewed and faces reconsideration.

(pic : file photo)

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/military-junta-monitors-budget-allocations-local-administrations-ensure-corruption-kickbacks/


-- Thai PBS 2014-07-15

[Thaddeus]

The reports have documented that no less than 30 % of all proposed projects are corrupted by kick-backs to local politicians amounting to around 60 billion baht.

Those numbers do not look right to me.

[seajae]

at last we have someone with the balls to actually try to stop the graft that is endemic in thai politics and a way of life to all govt officers. If they can pull this off it will make Thailand a much better country but it will not be easy to do, how do you stop something that has been happening since the year dot.

[robblok]

Great developments while I dont always agree with everything the junta does I agree with most of it. They are the best thing ever happened to Thailand and we got Taksins arrogance to thank for this (his amnesty).

I hope they really can do something about this but it will be hard that is for sure.

[Emster23]

The reports have documented that no less than 30 % of all proposed projects are corrupted by kick-backs to local politicians amounting to around 60 billion baht.

Those numbers do not look right to me.

A bit of wordplay here with "no less than 30%". Put in more reasonable fashion might be something like "30% or more". Which would include 100%

[djjamie]

Good to see the Junta acting transparently and for the benefit of the community.

This highlights further that this is not a coup, but a pathway to better governance that will be the template for the next government to adhere too.

[wandasloan]

Good to see the Junta acting transparently and for the benefit of the community.

This highlights further that this is not a coup, but a pathway to better governance that will be the template for the next government to adhere too.

Satire always appreciated in these trying times. Quite a good effort.

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[zyphodb]

Mmmmm wonder if this'll apply to the armed forces budget as well ???

[ginjag]

Good to see the Junta acting transparently and for the benefit of the community.

This highlights further that this is not a coup, but a pathway to better governance that will be the template for the next government to adhere too.

Satire always appreciated in these trying times. Quite a good effort.

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Better effort than the last lot...............if you cannot agree to that you will never agree to anything.

[binjalin]

Good to see the Junta acting transparently and for the benefit of the community.

This highlights further that this is not a coup, but a pathway to better governance that will be the template for the next government to adhere too.

another foolish comment, whether it is 'good' or 'bad', if it walks like a duck and quacks it's a coup

there maybe some good things come of it, we hope so, but don't try to obfuscate the obvious

[ginjag]

Good to see the Junta acting transparently and for the benefit of the community.

This highlights further that this is not a coup, but a pathway to better governance that will be the template for the next government to adhere too.

another foolish comment, whether it is 'good' or 'bad', if it walks like a duck and quacks it's a coup

there maybe some good things come of it, we hope so, but don't try to obfuscate the obvious

There are no good coup's in your eyes, how did PTP walk, with their heads in the air ??? I thought they were mostly bad, but some surprisingly turn out to be saviors. Roll on the better times, good riddance to bad rubbish.

[Chang_paarp]

Mmmmm wonder if this'll apply to the armed forces budget as well ???

I bet TAT would get a little nervous if the spotlight was pointed their way. The concept of proving value for money spent would be an alien concept. As to accountability............

[djjamie]

Good to see the Junta acting transparently and for the benefit of the community.

This highlights further that this is not a coup, but a pathway to better governance that will be the template for the next government to adhere too.

Satire always appreciated in these trying times. Quite a good effort.

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That cutting edge sarcastic intellect coming out in the one sentence replies. Nearly as good as the "Yawn" replies, but either way I love them. It shows that I am right when an intelligent and articulate rebuttal cannot be given.

"Trying times"? Going from daily terrorist attacks to peace and stability! SET at record highs. Baht on the increase. Consumer sentiment on the rise. Confidence index going up. America back tracking from their original narrative. (Notice all that is a narrative the Junta cannot control). Taxi mafia reform already in action which we can see already. All illegal immigrants being "legalized" thus giving them rights in this country (yep, thats not in your imagination either unless 200 000 actors were employed to "pull the wool over our eyes"). Weapons seizures at record levels and terrorists being arrested. Trying times!??

Good to see you follow the PTP trademark of proclaiming the opposite of everything that is happening. My favorite example of that was "This reconciliation bill will bring all sides together for the betterment of Thailand" That is a swell example of the opposite happening.

One would assume you are playing to an agenda. I look at facts and my facts override your "beliefs"

PTP logic right there mate!

Edited July 15, 2014 by djjamie

[djjamie]

Good to see the Junta acting transparently and for the benefit of the community.

This highlights further that this is not a coup, but a pathway to better governance that will be the template for the next government to adhere too.

another foolish comment, whether it is 'good' or 'bad', if it walks like a duck and quacks it's a coup

there maybe some good things come of it, we hope so, but don't try to obfuscate the obvious

Just like a hammer can be used to build a house if used in the right way like nailing in nails, it can also be used to destroy the house if wielded in a violent uncontrolled manner.

Like democracy a coup is a tool. It is a tool used to achieve something. It is the person that controls the tool that makes it work for the betterment of us or to make us worse off. The narrative the Junta cannot control as is reflected in my post above shows that the tool the Right Honorable General Prayuth has used is benefitting Thailand. He is rebuilding the democratic house with his coup hammer that was destroyed by the PTP using their hammer of democracy that an unelected, accused mass murderer, accused terrorist and convicted criminal fugitive wielded to the point where the front door was not even recognizable. (yes, yes thaksin was elected….Ohhh, hang on?). I see that makes some so bitter and twisted they resemble a bulldogs face sucking on a bitter lemon sherbet.

Please my dear friend come out of the shadows and breath the air. It has a smell you may not recognize. That smell is called democracy and the Right Honorable General is ensuring that democratic tool is wielded correctly in the future.

[billd766]

Good to see the Junta acting transparently and for the benefit of the community.

This highlights further that this is not a coup, but a pathway to better governance that will be the template for the next government to adhere too.

Satire always appreciated in these trying times. Quite a good effort.

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Far better than ANY political party in the last 20 years or so.