Education Min participates in industrial rehabilitation
Leading universities are assigned to exploit their expertise in assisting the rehabilitation of inundated industrial estates.
Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, Education Minister Woravat Auapinyakul said that the universities would conduct a research on how to rehabilitate the industrial estates, fix machinery and handle hazardous chemicals. The researches would then be submitted to the government.
Chulalongkorn University is assigned to cover Bangkadi Industrial Estate, Kasetsart University to cover Rojana Industrial Park, Mahidol University to cover Bang Pa-in Industrial Estate, Thammasat University to cover Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Estate, and King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Thonburi to cover Hi-Tech Industrial Estate, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang to cover Nava Nakorn Industrial Estate and King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok to cover Factory Land.
Assistance would also come from universities in unflooded provinces.
The meeting also approved a health project to be carried out jointly by the Office of Higher Education Commission and universities with medicine departments. Vocational institutes will also come up with maintenance centres to fix electrical appliances.
A number of 2,396 schools nationwide are affected by the floods, with damage estimated at Bt1.5 billion.
