Cabinet okays 29 development projects in the Northeast
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The Cabinet yesterday approved a package of 29 development projects for 12 upper northeastern provinces worth Bt1.65 billion, including a Bt30-million university in Udon Thani.
Acting government spokeswoman Titima Chaisang said the batch was part of the 190 projects requiring more than Bt10 billion of government spending.
At Udon Thani Rajabhat University, where Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra chaired the mobile Cabinet meeting, about 1,000 people gathered to submit a petition for government assistance.
They included members of rival political groups.
Two companies of crowd-control police were maintaining law and order.
The people were not allowed to meet with the prime minister in groups. Instead their representatives submitted their grievances in front of the Cabinet meeting room inside the campus.
Surathin Wijan, a senior member of the PM’s working group on complaints, said that since Sunday, 82 cases had been filed by people seeking government help.
