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Wed, 10/12/2011 - 13:22
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PM: Persistent floods are expected in several Thai provinces
BANGKOK, October 12 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Wednesday that persistent floods are expected in several Thai provinces over the next couple of months, ordering authorities in the critically-flooded areas to take good care of local people.
Premier Yingluck made the comments and instruction at a video conference of governors of 14 flood-hit provinces and other concerned authorities in Thailand's central region, held at the government's newly-set up centre for flood relief operations inside Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport.
Yingluck noted that there will be no enforcement of the emergency decree in any flood-stricken area, as the country's most critically-inundated Ayutthaya and Nakhon Sawan Provinces have already been declared flood-hit disaster zones, and that she has instructed officials of the Department of Provincial Administration under the Thai Ministry of Interior to work in two parts, one is to urgently evacuate people in flood-affected areas to safe places and the other is to take good care of them until the situation in their areas returns to normal.
The Pheu Thai prime minister also ordered agencies concerned to speed up implementing flood prevention measures in areas being at risk but having not yet been hit by floods, as well as to evacuate people out of the areas as a precaution and to prepare relief assistance for them in case that their areas are later flooded.
Meanwhile, Thai Justice Minister Police General Pracha Promnog warned that the flooding situation in Sing Buri, Chainat, Angthong and Ayutthaya Province in the central region could worsen over the next couple of days, urging local authorities to alert people in areas at risk in advance and to be fully-prepared to immediately evacuate affected people to safe grounds. (TNA)
Premier Yingluck made the comments and instruction at a video conference of governors of 14 flood-hit provinces and other concerned authorities in Thailand's central region, held at the government's newly-set up centre for flood relief operations inside Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport.
Yingluck noted that there will be no enforcement of the emergency decree in any flood-stricken area, as the country's most critically-inundated Ayutthaya and Nakhon Sawan Provinces have already been declared flood-hit disaster zones, and that she has instructed officials of the Department of Provincial Administration under the Thai Ministry of Interior to work in two parts, one is to urgently evacuate people in flood-affected areas to safe places and the other is to take good care of them until the situation in their areas returns to normal.
The Pheu Thai prime minister also ordered agencies concerned to speed up implementing flood prevention measures in areas being at risk but having not yet been hit by floods, as well as to evacuate people out of the areas as a precaution and to prepare relief assistance for them in case that their areas are later flooded.
Meanwhile, Thai Justice Minister Police General Pracha Promnog warned that the flooding situation in Sing Buri, Chainat, Angthong and Ayutthaya Province in the central region could worsen over the next couple of days, urging local authorities to alert people in areas at risk in advance and to be fully-prepared to immediately evacuate affected people to safe grounds. (TNA)
