Published on December 4, 2023, at 4:00 p.m.
At a cellular cabinet meeting on Monday, 81 development initiatives worth an estimated 7.4 billion ringgit will be put forth.
As part of his observation tour of the top Northeast’s Bueng Kan, Loei, Nong Khai-Nong Bua Lam Phu, and Udon Thani regions, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will preside over his first mobile cabinet meeting there.
According to sources, the government will be presented with a total of 81 jobs valued at about 7.4 billion baht for attention.
They include suggestions for developing network and shipping, eradicating poverty, and improving agricultural technology.
Phumtham Wechayachai, the deputy prime minister and minister of commerce, added that the cabinet will take into account suggestions made at meetings between condition organizations and the private sector from the five northern provinces.
In order for business owners in Udon Thani to enjoy the same privileges as those in Nong Khai, one plan calls for the expansion of the specific socioeconomic development zone it to include the business house it.
A new logistics park in the Udon Thani professional estate, which will serve as a one-stop service hub at the center of the region’s new free zone for e-commerce, is another proposal.
An region where specific customs regulations are not put into effect is known as a free territory.
According to Mr. Phumtham, the Department of Foreign Trade will be in charge of promoting the project because bringing Nong Khai and Udon Thai into the same exclusive economic growth area would increase cross-border deal with neighboring nations.
Mr. Srettha visited Ban Phu Din Thong on Sunday before the mobile cabinet meeting on Monday. There, he was informed about a powerful new community-based treatment program for drug addicts.
He also said that the program’s drug users may benefit morally from it because it would help them integrate back into society and make a difference for the nation.
On Sunday, Deputy Interior Minister Songsak Thongsri went on his own examination tour of Bueng Kan’s Phon Charoen neighborhood and listened to the concerns of more than 500 visitors.
He promised to bring up their issues at the Monday cellular cabinet meeting after the conversation.