731 position agencies asked the budget committee to reduce over 9 billion baht from their demands.
Described: 20: 44, 8 Mar 2024
Defence Minister Sutin Klungsang claims that the navy’s plan to purchase a new warship will remain constant despite the House of Representatives council vetting the budget bill for the year 2024.
The Navy’s plan to purchase both a ship and a submarine in the same fiscal year, according to Mr. Sutin, had “overblown” the Defense Ministry’s resources, contrary to the government’s plan of cutting funds spending and personnel.
” The plan to purchase the ship will need to be modified, but I insist the frigate buy initiative will still go according to plan,” said the minister. However, it might occur during various governmental years, not the one from the upcoming 2024 fiscal year.
” We may soon reach a decision regarding the purchase of a underwater.” A budget will likely be allocated for the order of a underwater. There has been concern that the funds might not be sufficient, so we must concentrate on one task at a time.
The military’s charm against its decision to reject the demand for a finances to finance the purchase of a new ship was rejected by the particular House council tasked with vetting the 2024 resources on Tuesday.
The announcement comes a moment after Adm Adoong Pan-iam, the captain of the Royal Thai Navy, filed an appeal against the subcommittee’s decision, claiming in a letter that a new ship is required.
Adm Adoong wrote in the letter that a new frigate is necessary to the navy’s primary goal of upholding the nation’s regional authority, especially given that the navy intends to decommission its present frigates over the next few years.
The Sutin: Frigate job will go as planned.
Prior to now, the military requested 17 billion ringgit from the 2024 budget to fund its fleet purchasing plan, which it intended to apply over the next five years. In the first year, 1.7 billion ringgit did be spent.
According to a cause, the new ship would be stationed along the Andaman coast.
Additionally, according to Mr. Sutin, the funds will be reintroduced into the government’s main budget as a result of the House committee’s rejection of the fleet’s request for the 17 billion-baht budget.
According to Anusorn Iamsa- wot, a Pheu Thai MP who is the agency’s official, the House commission vetting the resources costs on Friday decided to slice budget requests from a total of 731 state agencies by more than 9 billion baht.
The council will send the funds expenses for the second and third readings of the legislation in parliament on March 20 and 21, according to Mr. Anusorn. He added that the council also made the decision that the 17 billion bass funds requested by the army would not be returned to the Defence Ministry.