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Sat, 09/03/2011 - 11:10
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Thai PM focuses on flood problems
BANGKOK, September 3 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra called a meeting of agencies concerned this morning to follow up implementations of official measures to assist flood victims, including a plan to hand out financial compensations to local farmers whose farmlands and crops have been damaged by inundations in their areas.
Yingluck instructed the concerned agencies to integrate as a team-work and to set up a central war room to closely monitor flooding updates and to provide immediate assistance for flood victims as a one-stop service.
The first female Thai premier expressed her concerns over the ongoing flood crisis in widespread areas, assigning public agencies to accelerate dispatching full assistance to people in flood-hit areas and to seek measures to effectively prevent floods in the future.
The new Pheu Thai premier also instructed all members of her Cabinet to visit flood victims in areas under their jurisdiction, along with accompanying her in field trips to flood-stricken zones.
Yingluck is also scheduled to chair a meeting of nine governors--whose provinces have remained flooded--tomorrow, including Pitsanulok, Pichit, Nakhon Sawan, Sukhothai, Singburi, Angthong, Chainat, Ayutthaya and Ubon Ratchathani to review the flooding situation in the provinces and to discuss and work out a timeframe for providing financial assistance to local flood victims.
Meanwhile, the Thai Ministry of Interior said in its latest report that 44 provinces across the country have been hit by floods over the past several weeks, affecting over 1.22 million households so far, with some 6.79 billion baht of state budget needed to assist flood victims and to rehabilitate inundated areas. (TNA)
Yingluck instructed the concerned agencies to integrate as a team-work and to set up a central war room to closely monitor flooding updates and to provide immediate assistance for flood victims as a one-stop service.
The first female Thai premier expressed her concerns over the ongoing flood crisis in widespread areas, assigning public agencies to accelerate dispatching full assistance to people in flood-hit areas and to seek measures to effectively prevent floods in the future.
The new Pheu Thai premier also instructed all members of her Cabinet to visit flood victims in areas under their jurisdiction, along with accompanying her in field trips to flood-stricken zones.
Yingluck is also scheduled to chair a meeting of nine governors--whose provinces have remained flooded--tomorrow, including Pitsanulok, Pichit, Nakhon Sawan, Sukhothai, Singburi, Angthong, Chainat, Ayutthaya and Ubon Ratchathani to review the flooding situation in the provinces and to discuss and work out a timeframe for providing financial assistance to local flood victims.
Meanwhile, the Thai Ministry of Interior said in its latest report that 44 provinces across the country have been hit by floods over the past several weeks, affecting over 1.22 million households so far, with some 6.79 billion baht of state budget needed to assist flood victims and to rehabilitate inundated areas. (TNA)
