Universities to help review flood projects
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra last week signed a memorandum of understanding for a project to recruit 22 universities to help follow-up on the progress of government-initiated flood-prevention projects.
The project will be implemented under a budget of Bt30million, according to PM’s Office Minister Nivatthamrong Boonsongpaisal.
“We need to follow up,” Nivatthamrong said. “If problems are detected, we can then sort them out.”
He said projects involving the repair of roads and embankments, and the dredging of waterways had to be completed urgently.
“We need them completed by mid-year as the rainy season will soon start,” he said.
Education Minister Suchart Tadathamrongvej was also present at the signing of the MoU yesterday.
A source said the government believed if the flood-prevention projects progressed as planned, the country would not face another crisis this year.
Under the project, information technology including GPS will be deployed to check on the government’s flood-prevention projects.
Last year, floods ravaged many provinces claiming hundreds of lives, submerging several industrial estates, and causing massive economic damage.
