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About 200 plants in Ayutthaya inundated
BANGKOK, October 9 (TNA) - Despite an enlargement of water barriers to keep floodwater away, a total of 198 industrial plants located within the Rojana Industrial Estate compound in Ayutthaya Province, near Bangkok, are now inundated following a water runoff from the North, said Industry Minister Wannarat Chanukah.
The height of the water barriers at the industrial estate was recently enlarged to 6.5 metres from 5.1 metres but the factories are now under deep floodwater after the barriers collapsed following strong currents that hit the northern side of the industrial estate, he said.
Another major factor that made those factories inundated was that barriers of only 38- kilometer-long was built out of the total distance of 67 kilometres. Two other nearby industrial estates in the province have been advised to strengthen their already built dykes as water runoff from the North has started flowing downward to Bangkok and its surrounding provinces.
Plans have already been made by the Industry Ministry to help industrial entrepreneurs whose properties have been damaged by the current flood. The assistance include an exemption of annual fee and an operation licence fee, waiving duty for imported machinery replacing those which are damaged from flood, and an exemption of tax on transferring machinery to other safer places.
State-run banks would also be requested to provide an interest as low as 6 per cent for loans sought by businessmen who suffered from the disaster. (TNA)
The height of the water barriers at the industrial estate was recently enlarged to 6.5 metres from 5.1 metres but the factories are now under deep floodwater after the barriers collapsed following strong currents that hit the northern side of the industrial estate, he said.
Another major factor that made those factories inundated was that barriers of only 38- kilometer-long was built out of the total distance of 67 kilometres. Two other nearby industrial estates in the province have been advised to strengthen their already built dykes as water runoff from the North has started flowing downward to Bangkok and its surrounding provinces.
Plans have already been made by the Industry Ministry to help industrial entrepreneurs whose properties have been damaged by the current flood. The assistance include an exemption of annual fee and an operation licence fee, waiving duty for imported machinery replacing those which are damaged from flood, and an exemption of tax on transferring machinery to other safer places.
State-run banks would also be requested to provide an interest as low as 6 per cent for loans sought by businessmen who suffered from the disaster. (TNA)
