Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has refused to provide special compensation to the people on the outskirts of Bangkok whose communities have been kept flooded to protect the inner city and it's financial centres.
She has rejected a proposal from the government's Flood Relief Operation Command (Froc) that the government make a daily payment of 500-1,000 baht to each of flood victims trapped behind the dykes in Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi and Nakhon Pathom provinces, and in some suburban areas of Bangkok.
All areas are in the same trouble. I sympathise with them and I am trying to offer adequate assistance.
As for rehabilitation in deeply flooded areas, ministers have been assigned to help flood victims in the field and I am sure that the assistance will be adequate," Ms Yingluck said.
Asked if the government would raise compensation for each flooded family from 5,000 baht, the prime minister said her government already had many other assistance measures in place, and would launch more after the floods recede.
She said the government had to give careful consideration before deciding whether it could lift the financial assistance for individual flood victims.
At present, the government pays 5,000 baht as immediate compensation to each flooded family and up to 30,000 baht for each flood-damaged house.
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