Thai reform body to present action plans next week

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Reform body to present action plans next week
Wasamon Audjarint
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- THE National Reform Steering Assembly is now working on the last phase of its “1-1-18” timetable. The final phase, expected to run from last Wednesday till June 15 next year, sees the Assembly proposing all reform action plans to the Cabinet and drafting related bills to be tabled with the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), NRSA president Tinnapan Nakata said during a press briefing at Parliament House yesterday.

The current phase follows two one-month phases when the Assembly established its work direction, then reviewed the now-defunct National Reform Council's 37 reform issues and eight development priorities.

The body's 11 committees will present all reform action plans and frameworks on Monday and Tuesday next week.

Urgent matters will be sent to the NLA for faster enactment of related laws.

As outlined by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, the NRSA proceeds in accordance with the rest of the "five rivers" of power - the National Council for Peace and Order, the Cabinet, the Constitution Drafting Commission (CDC) and NLA, he said.

Alongkorn Ponlaboot, vice president of the NRSA, said that to facilitate the process, a coordinating committee had been formed with whips from the Cabinet, NRSA and NLA, chaired by PM's Office Minister Suwaphan Tanyuvardhana.

Six subcommittees assisted by deputy prime ministers would put their reform initiatives into practice.

The 1-1-18 scheme is designed to harmonise with the government's 6-4-6-4 reform timetable.

The most urgent reform issues, in the NRSA's view, involve politics, education, corruption, inequality and the economy.

The reform body realised the importance of public relations, Alongkorn said. It has set up a team of spokespeople plus a communication centre to keep in contact with the public, and schedules press conferences for Thai and foreign diplomatic corps and media.

Thailand needed to manage challenges such as a static economy and aging society, he said, on the way to joining the upcoming Asean Community and achieving the national reform goals by 2032.

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