webfact Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Cabinet nods 35 billion baht for Village Fund projectBANGKOK: -- The cabinet on Tuesday approved a 35 billion baht budget for the Village Fund project to be used for the development of infrastructures in villages and rural communities.Each of the 79,556 villages and rural communities throughout the country will receive a 500,000 baht fund through the Office of Village Fund for the development of infrastructure projects such as rice barns, fruit or vegetable drying shades, rice mills, fertilizer-making plants and other projects which will help enhance rural economy.Because of the need to implement the projects in haste, disbursement of the fund must be completed in six months with the hope that the activities will help spur grassroot economy.Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/148220 -- Thai PBS 2016-01-27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billphillips Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Or maybe a new car for the village head man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeneeds Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I will wait and see what my village does with the money, before making a judgement , We have a very astute head lady who is all for the community, good to see some taxes being collected is getting shared back to the people , now its up to the people to make sure their village benefits from the money, and remove the head people if they do not see where the money was spent, WISELY ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selftaopath Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Or maybe a new car for the village head man. OH YEA!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 This is to replace the money the headmen have lost in the delay over elections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seajae Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 at least it will be distributed not based on how "red" they are or who they vote for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainman34014 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Villages should use it to pay for garbage collection costs that locals refuse to pay and cut down on the filthy fires that burn almost 24hrs a day and the local dumping of rubbish on verges everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Have these villages paid previous "LOANS" they have been handed in the past?,I thought this was a Thaksin idea,to buy votes,so what is the purpose now,Oh yes to bring happiness and more debit to the villagers. regards Worgeordie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerojero Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 And the villages Heads are well versed and educated to properly develop agribusiness infrastructure. Yep. Throw billions at the villages and see where it goes, rather I suppose whose bank accounts get a lot fatter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halloween Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Have these villages paid previous "LOANS" they have been handed in the past?,I thought this was a Thaksin idea,to buy votes,so what is the purpose now,Oh yes to bring happiness and more debit to the villagers. regards Worgeordie Is there a record somewhere of this being a loan, or was that in your imagination? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussieinthailand Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 It's a fairly simple thing to identify the needs of each village as they will differ in many cases, ie; drought prevention, water supply, flood prevention, health clinic supply's, education, road works, etc, most villages family's already have a rice barn, have rice mills, ect. Now if REAL account keeping and auditing could be done then there is a chance that improvement's can be made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayboy Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Have these villages paid previous "LOANS" they have been handed in the past?,I thought this was a Thaksin idea,to buy votes,so what is the purpose now,Oh yes to bring happiness and more debit to the villagers. regards Worgeordie It's just another example of the Junta slavishly copying Thaksin's populist policies - as the Democrats did also - in a hypocritical attempt to win the kind of electorally spectacular popularity Thaksin enjoyed.Will it work? I could not possibly comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFarAndNear Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I will wait and see what my village does with the money, before making a judgement , We have a very astute head lady who is all for the community, good to see some taxes being collected is getting shared back to the people , now its up to the people to make sure their village benefits from the money, and remove the head people if they do not see where the money was spent, WISELY ! Being a head of a village is an Investment. You have to bribe the voters to get the Head of a village. Now guess how they will get their return of invest? I have been once in a community where some super clever head had decided to build a 1km bicycle lane from the next school to his village. So they splitted around 20% of the road on the right side by putting every 30cm a fixed plastic pylon on the road. There must have been at least 1000pylons. It looks so ridicolous if you see it. In the middle of nothing 1km brand new plastic pylons just to split around 30cm of road on the ride side. End of the story, after around 1 year half of the pylons were stolen or have been ran over.... Head of the village built himself a new house by the way.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeneeds Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I will wait and see what my village does with the money, before making a judgement , We have a very astute head lady who is all for the community, good to see some taxes being collected is getting shared back to the people , now its up to the people to make sure their village benefits from the money, and remove the head people if they do not see where the money was spent, WISELY ! Being a head of a village is an Investment. You have to bribe the voters to get the Head of a village. Now guess how they will get their return of invest?I have been once in a community where some super clever head had decided to build a 1km bicycle lane from the next school to his village. So they splitted around 20% of the road on the right side by putting every 30cm a fixed plastic pylon on the road. There must have been at least 1000pylons. It looks so ridicolous if you see it. In the middle of nothing 1km brand new plastic pylons just to split around 30cm of road on the ride side. End of the story, after around 1 year half of the pylons were stolen or have been ran over.... Head of the village built himself a new house by the way.... fortunately i have a different optimistic view, from prior results in my village and the common sense where soi's got tarmac and heavy areas that are used by sugar cane trucks got upgraded thick cement roads , still ongoing , and upgrading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snackbar Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 On what plant can it be legal for a non elected government to give money away to private business? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickudon Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 The last disbursement saw new drains laid along about 400m of the road through the village. Now we have concrete channels full of stagnant water that doesn't drain properly (before drainage was only a problem over a 50 metre stretch). In the process they dug up parts of the good road and replaced it with 2" thick concrete which cracked up within days. What a waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangon04 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Have these villages paid previous "LOANS" they have been handed in the past?,I thought this was a Thaksin idea,to buy votes,so what is the purpose now,Oh yes to bring happiness and more debit to the villagers. regards Worgeordie It's just another example of the Junta slavishly copying Thaksin's populist policies - as the Democrats did also - in a hypocritical attempt to win the kind of electorally spectacular popularity Thaksin enjoyed.Will it work? I could not possibly comment. only a billion dollars - not worth getting upset about..... how much is a used Chinese submarine these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I do so wish Prime Minister Prayuth could manage a smile when announcing the government's magnanimity. It should much please him that the "Gross Happiness Index" will rise a few points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 On what plant can it be legal for a non elected government to give money away to private business? This one..............? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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