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Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:21
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Thai government insists on immediate assistance to flood victims
BANGKOK, September 30 (TNA) - The Thai government has confirmed that it is helping local flood victims right away without waiting for ongoing inundations to recede.
Minister Attached to the Prime Minister's Office Surawit Khonsomboon insisted on the immediate assistance to flood victims at a seminar on the Thai government's economic, industrial and agricultural policies held in Bangkok on Friday, especially compensations to the flood-affected people.
Dr. Surawit acknowledged that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has also ordered soldiers of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) to help flood victims move their belongings to safe places.
Meanwhile, Thawatchai Thanomlikhit, chair of a farmers’ council in Bangkok's suburban Pathum Thani Province, demanded that the Pheu Thai Party-led administration clarify its rice mortgage scheme, saying that the government had announced to receive unlimited amounts of rice to its mortgage project, but the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives later stated that the scheme would cover only 554 kilograms of rice per rai, or about 1,600 square meters, of paddies. (TNA)
Minister Attached to the Prime Minister's Office Surawit Khonsomboon insisted on the immediate assistance to flood victims at a seminar on the Thai government's economic, industrial and agricultural policies held in Bangkok on Friday, especially compensations to the flood-affected people.
Dr. Surawit acknowledged that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has also ordered soldiers of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) to help flood victims move their belongings to safe places.
Meanwhile, Thawatchai Thanomlikhit, chair of a farmers’ council in Bangkok's suburban Pathum Thani Province, demanded that the Pheu Thai Party-led administration clarify its rice mortgage scheme, saying that the government had announced to receive unlimited amounts of rice to its mortgage project, but the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives later stated that the scheme would cover only 554 kilograms of rice per rai, or about 1,600 square meters, of paddies. (TNA)
