Bt10 bn earmarked for flood-hit households
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The government will allocate more than Bt10 billion to compensate some 2 million households nationwide affected by the flooding, Federation of Thai Industries president Payungsak Chartsutthipol said Monday.
The affected households would get about Bt5,000 each, Payungsak said after a meeting with the government’s rehabilitation committee chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Kittiratt NaRanong.
The Interior Ministry would register flood-affected people and begin distributing the compensation within two weeks, he said.
Major flooding began to hit the Central region of the country a few months ago, before reaching Bangkok and its suburbs in early October. Millions of households as well as many industrial estates and business centres have been heavily damaged.
