Third-phase reforms in pipeline
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AN OVERHAUL of the police is among several reform efforts yet to be carried out in the third stage of the government's road map, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has told a joint meeting of the Cabinet and the National Council for Peace and Order
He instructed concerned agencies to wrap up the work of the road map’s third stage so the work can be transferred to the next government.
The other uncompleted areas of reform are the South, energy, basic infrastructure development, strengthening farmers and communities, education and teaching, natural resource rehabilitation and waste management, the Asean road map and the bureaucracy.
The prime minister said the government had completed reform under the first stage of the road map.
Those areas include restoring peace and order in the country, social reforms such as regulating street vendors, motorcycle taxis and gambling dens, cracking down on forest encroachments and corruption and regulating migrant workers.
Major problems the government said had been solved during the second stage of the road map include human trafficking, forest encroachment, solving the economic slowdown with economic stimulus measures, developing the digital economy and dual rail tracks, building roads, improving the air quality and water transport, and boosting tourism.
On the law reform, it said about 71 new laws had been announced in the Royal Gazette, 13 laws were waiting royal endorsement and 107 laws had been presented to the National Legislative Assembly for deliberation.
