Call for Line scheme to be probed

Srisuwan, now chairman of the Thai Constitution Protection Organisation, said the project cost of Bt7.12 million was too high and went against one of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)’s virtues – austerity, which was among 12 it wanted citizens to observe.
The designation of a median price for the project was proposed by five government computer programmers who offered no clearly defined criteria for their decision to set the rate at Bt7 million, which Srisuwan said was higher than rates that other businesses would pay to promote their goods and services.
“Designation of such a median price without clearly defined criteria may have violated the NACC regulations on implementation of government projects, unworthy of cost in anticipated exchange for the outcomes, and contradicting the junta’s own virtue of austerity,” he said.