Tiny participation for common sessions
The National Human Rights Commission ( NHRC ) will receive a petition from the Thailand Consumer Council (TCC ) on Wednesday, citing shortcomings in the way public hearings are conducted and infringe on people’s rights.
Itboon Onwongsa, assistant secretary-general of the TCC, said the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s third revised version of the town plan also lacks common awareness and commitment.
” That was against people’s right”, he told members in a conference on the” Justice City” held by the TCC on Saturday.
We have closely examined the Bangkok area plan’s design, and we have discovered numerous issues that still need to be resolved, such as traffic congestion and flood. Everyone has the right to voice their opinions about the new plan in Bangkok, according to him, and there are more than 5 million persons there.
According to the law, public hearings and open engagement are required for the area plan’s preparation. However, the BMA has failed to adequately explain the effects of its area program, and its public hearings were sparsely attended.
The TCC requested more individuals attend its trials in a letter to the BMA, but the BMA did not respond. As a result, TCC may question the National Human Rights Commission to act.
Supattra Nakaphiw, a part of NHRC, said she immediately agreed with the complaint that the review of the Bangkok area pan perhaps offend people’s rights, such as the right to information, the right to participation, the right to a healthy environment, and the right to property, specifically the right to housing.
We will examine whether the Bangkok City Plan’s formulation violates women’s rights. If we find there is a infraction, we will send it to BMA to get options”, she said.
Pornprom Okuchi, associate director of the Subcommittee on Real Estate and Housing under the TCC, said 21, 776 people took part in the BMA’s public sessions from 2017 until the present, out of Bangkok inhabitants of 5.4 million people.
” That’s less than one per share. According to him, this is unethical information for public hearings on important city planning projects, including the revised city plan, which will add 148 new roads and 200 new canals.
Atavit Suwanpakdee, president of an expert panel to the Industry Minister, said he has been keeping an eye on the BMA’s town plan. He discovered that the most recent edition of the Khu Bon Water Plan has not yet been included in it.
He claimed that despite the government’s claim that the Khu Bon was a liquid engagement place in Bangkok’s northeast region capable of holding up to 870, 000 million square meters of water, it had vanished.
In spite of the fact that 130-rai of land was designated in 2022 as a kaem ling ( monkey cheek ), several housing estates were constructed by private companies.
” The water retention program has been prepared for property eviction, but the place has been allocated to housing projects. I’ll be interested to find out if the program is actually included in the town plan. If no, I will post this subject to the National Anti-Corruption Commission”, he said.
A member of the Klong Toey district’s population, Thaweethong Latthong, claimed that the community had given up four significant temples to create Bangkok Port and relocated four significant ones from the area.
By requesting that the 26 Klong Toey areas receive 20 % of the port area immediately, we would like to take part in the 4th Bangkok City Plan’s draft.
We would like to have some of the area for our folks so we will have safe places to visit home, he said,” since we learned that a percentage of the interface will be allocated for an entertainment complex job.”