The meeting of an extraordinary meeting of the cabinet on Tuesday approved 60.7 billion baht budget for rehabilitating inundated industrial plants, provinces and the people in flood-hit areas, reports said.
Industry Minister Wannarat Channnukul said the cabinet agreed to allocate a total of 47 billion baht initial budget for the rehabilitation of the flooded manufacturers both inside and outside industrial estates.
The cabinet also agreed to set priority on plans to provide assistance for the manufacturers in inundated areas because related ministries had asked for more than the currently available and usable 47 billion baht budget, said Mr Wannarat.
In addition, the cabinet also approved 20.11 billion baht budget for financing nine urgent projects to rehabilitate and heal the people whose homes were flooded, according to director of the Budget Bureau Worawit Champeerat.
The nine projects are;
1) The project to offer 5,000 baht compensation for each flood affected household in Bangkok and other 62 provinces, with a total cost of 13.17 billion baht.
2) The project to rehabilitate people’s living quality proposed by the flood-hit provinces (314.54 million baht).
3) The project to prepare readiness for 2,006 flooded schools and students (456.03 million baht).
4) The project to provide healthcare services for severely flood affected people in nine provinces (121.92 million baht).
5) The project for delaying plans to lay off 100,000 workers by flooded manufacturers (606 million baht).
6) The project to set up a “Fix It Centre” (17.85 million baht).
7) The project to renovate 296 ancient sites (1.38 billion baht).
8) The project to repair and reconstruct the damaged 708 roads (1.81 billion baht, and
9) The project to reconstruct 11 flooded rural roads (139.81 million baht.
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