'Rivers' must flow in the same direction: NRSA chairman
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National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA)'s chairman Tinnapan Nakata says he is aiming to promote a "five rivers" coordination to ensure that the assembly's work goes in the same direction.
“Our work should be in line with each other especially as we have such a limited time. Everything should go in the same direction,” he said yesterday, referring to the five “rivers”, namely the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the Cabinet, the Constitution Drafting Commission (CDC), the National Legislative Assembly, and the NSRA.
As stipulated in the 2014 interim charter’s Article 27 that reform on 11 agenda must be carried out, Tinnapan said that there is the need for the rivers to also work closely together.
For example, the NRSA has to coordinate with the Cabinet as well as ministries and departments to see how the reform should be implemented. It would be impossible for these agencies to push through the work without understanding the NRSA, the assembly’s chairman added.
Also, if there is a need to go out into the field or upcountry, the four “rivers” – excepting the NCPO – should go together so that their tasks run in unity, he said, adding that it was also more economical than having the four bodies going on different trips.
In this way, the trips would benefit the people, he added, noting that the bodies could learn directly from the people what their problems are and could in turn inform them of what the government had already done to alleviate them.
Asked when the four rivers would make their first trip, Tinnapan replied that it had not yet be scheduled. However, it would take place as soon as possible, he said.
