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Thai Cabinet nods for Bt13bn projects at last meeting: Spokesman
BANGKOK, May 4 (TNA) - Acting Thai Government Spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn reported that the Thai Cabinet approved government plans and projects totally worth some 13 billion baht at its last meeting on Tuesday.
Panitan, who is also deputy secretary general to Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, told reporters that he had been confirmed by the Bureau of the Budget that the total state budget approved by the Thai Cabinet at its last meeting to fund pending government plans and projects was 13.745 billion baht.
The spokesman dismissed earlier media reports that over 400 billion baht state budget was totally approved at the Thai Cabinet's 15-hour meeting on Tuesday, noting that some government plans and projects sponsored by state budget earlier approved were also discussed with no new budget endorsed.
The spokesman insisted that the Thai Cabinet's marathon consideration of some 155 issues at its last meeting was aimed at carrying on the pending government plans and projects without any unnecessary disruption, after Thailand's House of Representatives is dissolved in the coming days, as the then caretaker Abhisit administration is constitutionally barred from approving any state budget, but it is legally allowed to push forward national reform plans.
According to the acting Thai government spokesman, plans and projects approved by the 18th Cabinet meeting on Tuesday included those on solving local disaster, labour, farmers and consumers' problems, as well as those on national security and infrastructure, social, public health and education development, covering those for improving quality of life of people in Thailand's insurgency-prone deep South. (TNA)
Panitan, who is also deputy secretary general to Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, told reporters that he had been confirmed by the Bureau of the Budget that the total state budget approved by the Thai Cabinet at its last meeting to fund pending government plans and projects was 13.745 billion baht.
The spokesman dismissed earlier media reports that over 400 billion baht state budget was totally approved at the Thai Cabinet's 15-hour meeting on Tuesday, noting that some government plans and projects sponsored by state budget earlier approved were also discussed with no new budget endorsed.
The spokesman insisted that the Thai Cabinet's marathon consideration of some 155 issues at its last meeting was aimed at carrying on the pending government plans and projects without any unnecessary disruption, after Thailand's House of Representatives is dissolved in the coming days, as the then caretaker Abhisit administration is constitutionally barred from approving any state budget, but it is legally allowed to push forward national reform plans.
According to the acting Thai government spokesman, plans and projects approved by the 18th Cabinet meeting on Tuesday included those on solving local disaster, labour, farmers and consumers' problems, as well as those on national security and infrastructure, social, public health and education development, covering those for improving quality of life of people in Thailand's insurgency-prone deep South. (TNA)
