BMA to move residents close to Klong Lat Phrao
Play
BANGKOK officials will set up meetings with residents in eight districts to explain the flood-prevention project planned for Klong Lat Phrao Dam and guidelines for relocating people whose homes intrude on the canal.
Kittinan Khaosut, director of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Social Development Department, said he told BMA executives at a meeting Monday he has instructed officials to hold talks with residents and explain the project’s objectives and potential impacts.
The eight districts are Huai Khwang, Chatuchak, Lak Si, Don Muang, Sai Mai, Lat Phrao, Wang Thong Lang and Bang Khen.
He said they also present three initial relocation guidelines. These are: that affected families be relocated to a new plot and a saving group for habitual land allocation established for them; the authority will rent land from the Treasury Department, other state agencies or the private sector if insufficient land is available to relocate residents, and a saving group also be established; residents will be moved to housing provided by the National Housing Authority if neither of these options are |possible.
