Newsletters to outline state projects, achievements
THE GOVERNMENT is planning to produce series of newsletters about its achievements and future projects for distribution to the public nationwide.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha showed the first newsletter draft yesterday and said the objective of these press releases was to explain the government’s achievements and future projects of all ministries and departments.
The first newsletter has 12 pages, with features on floating markets, production and sales of high quality rice and the orchid market, which Prayut has been helping to promote.
The content also touched on the 19 ministries’ current and future projects.
The newsletters will be distributed at BTS Skytrain stations, bus stations and flyovers, plus Public Relations Department offices across the country.
Prayut said his government would also disseminate information about its work through social media, such as What’s App. “The government will reveal information about the work of all ministries. People can find out details such as how much funding is used in state projects and which projects are carried out in which areas,’’ he said.
Prayut said the meeting today of the so-called “five rivers” – Cabinet, the National Reform Committee, National Legislative Assembly, National Council for Peace and Order, Constitution Drafting Committee – would discuss what the five core agencies have been doing about corruption allegations and drafting of laws that will pave way for national reform.
Asked if he thought that red-shirt villages or villages where people uphold red-shirt ideology still exist, |Prayut did not believe so, saying it existed only in people’s minds.
“Some people absorbed the ideologies deep down or were brainwashed because of what they had been given materially. By visiting some red-shirt zones and talking to people there, I believe the intensity of those feelings have begun to subside,” he said.
