Transport minister orders agencies to bring costs in line with special panel's criteria
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Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt has ordered agencies involved in the government's Bt2-trillion infrastructure loan bill to make sure their project costs are in line with the suggestions made by the government's special committee on the programme, a
Affected agencies are the State Railway of Thailand, the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand, and the Highways, Rural Roads, and Marine departments.
The committee’s suggestions included advisers’ fees and raw-material costs, and the agencies’ estimates for actual projects should use the same criteria. The average consultant fee should be 2.53 per cent of the total project value.
The Nation
