PUBLISHED: 29 Apr 2025 at 05 :46
A public-private shared committee has approved 30 growth projects worth over 16. 4 billion ringgit that will be carried out across the top Northeast.
The case will be asked to review the budget for some of these tasks when it meets for a portable meeting in Nakhon Phanom afterwards on Tuesday.
According to Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungruangkit, who chaired the council meeting on Monday, nine projects you start straight away.
They include an Interior Ministry project to improve the environment along the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom’s Muang area, a job to create the Geo Park Centre in Nakhon Phanom’s Tha Uthen area and a job to develop Sakon Nakhon into a creative economy city.
Of them, four projects proposed by counties in the middle Northeast are for 200 million ringgit, and the other five projects proposed by the private sector are even worth 200 million ringgit.
Cabinet approval will be sought for an allocation of 400 million baht from the central fund of the 2025 budget to finance these projects, Mr Suriya said.
Deputy Transport Minister Manaporn Charoensri said the nine projects are expected to be completed in about a year, and most of them concern tourism and infrastructure development.
Mr Suriya also said another 21 projects worth 16 billion baht proposed by the private sector will be prioritised by certain agencies before being submitted for budget allocation requests from the cabinet.
The meeting also acknowledged the R12 land route project that links Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and southern China, Mr Suriya said, adding that the project will facilitate the transport of more goods from Thailand to China via road networks in Vietnam.
Government spokesman Jirayu Houngsub said that Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and cabinet ministers visited Bueng Nong Harn Lake and Don Kern Park in Sakon Nakhon’s Muang district to follow up on progress in development and recovery projects there before the mobile cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The Nong Harn Wetland is the Northeast’s largest freshwater lake and the second largest in Thailand. It is an important habitat and breeding and nursery ground for both local species of fish and those that seasonally migrate from the Mekong River, as well as at least 180 species of birds and aquatic plants.
Aside from being a major food and income source for the community, Nong Harn also serves as a monkey cheek/water retention area to prevent and alleviate flooding.
The premier will be briefed on the community’s way of leveraging natural resources and biodiversity to promote sustainable use of Nong Harn Wetland, which is in line with the government’s policy to promote balanced ecosystems for the benefit of local communities.