PM takes the Cabinet to the Northeast
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her ministers headed for the Northeast yesterday to hold the second "retreat" Cabinet meeting, which will be held today and tomorrow.
Yingluck left for Loei at noon yesterday and was expected to fly to Udon Thani later to meet the Regional Joint Public/Private Sector Consultative Committee and the Cabinet.
Yesterday, the premier was scheduled to meet women’s groups in Loei before travelling by helicopter to the Phu Kradung National Park and then flying to Udon Thani to inspect the Huay Klai Reservoir Sustainable Water Management Royal Project in Nong Wang Sor district. Later, the premier will listen to the committee’s proposals on development projects, which will be included in the agenda of the Cabinet meetings.
Yingluck will convene her Cabinet meeting today at Udon Thani Rajabhat University auditorium.
The Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board is also scheduled to propose projects for consideration at this meeting. The projects will be related to 12 provinces in the Northeast, namely Udon Thani, Nong Bua Lamphu, Nong Khai, Loei, Bueng Kan, Mukdahan, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, Khon Kaen, Maha Sarakham, Roi Et and Kalasin.
Yingluck, who has said she wants to hold her monthly Cabinet meetings in the provinces, first took her ministers to Chiang Mai on January 14-15. After the second meeting in Udon Thani, the Cabinet is scheduled to meet in Phuket on March 19-20, while the April 23-24 will be held somewhere in the Central region.
