Cabinet to discuss flood-rehabilitation
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The Cabinet will convene a special meeting on Monday to consider plans and a budget for postflood rehabilitation efforts, an informed source said yesterday.
Ministers will prioritise proposed projects at the 9am meeting, the source said.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has already met with some Cabinet members, relevant agencies, and governors of floodhit provinces to discuss rehabilitation, according to the source, who added that conclusions from those meetings would also be presented at the special Cabinet meeting on Monday.
The source said the Cabinet’s regular weekly meeting would be held on Tuesday as usual. Among the items on the agenda was the Interior Ministry’s proposal for the One Tambon One Product (Otop) scheme.
The ministry plans to ask that Otop products be promoted for use in repair work, as food at evacuation centres, and as gifts, because the floods had caused more than Bt242 million in damage to Otop producers and entrepreneurs.
More than 100 residents of floodhit Mooban Wangthong in Bangkok’s Don Muang district staged a rally that closed down the VibhavadiRangsit Road yesterday morning to demand that flood waters in their area be drained within three days.
They said their houses had been flooded for too long.
Pheu Thai Bangkok MP Surachat Thienthong talked to the flood victims and said pumps were being brought in from Nakhon Ratchasima to facilitate the drainage operation.
Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra, meanwhile, inspected the situation at Mooban Setthakij, where some flood water remains.
“We have installed 10 pumps. The flood waters should be drained out within a few days,” he said.
In a related development, the Crime Reporter and Photographer Association of Thailand and allied groups delivered relief items to flood victims in Nakhon Pathom’s Phutthamonthon district yesterday.
