PM touts village fund
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday chaired the opening of the “National Fund for People ... Reduce Poverty and Inequality” forum, along with Deputy PM Somkid Jatusripitak, PM’s Office Minister Suwapan Tanyuwattana and Director of the National Village and Urban Community Fund Office Natee Klibthong.
In his opening speech, the PM said that over the past three years, the government had injected more than Bt70 billion into the National Village Fund for about 200,000 projects. He claimed it would bring Bt39 billion in cash flow to the economy and Bt8.5 billion in profit to the communities.
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