BANGKOK, Dec 14 (TNA) – The government postpones the Chana Industrial Estate project pending a study.
The government made the stance as conservationists from Chana district of Songkhla had rallied at Government House on Phitsanulok Road for five days to oppose the project.
At 10.30am Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon assigned Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thamanat Prompow to meet the demonstrators.
Mr Thamanat said demonstrators wanted the project to be postponed and he would propose Gen Prawit form a working group to study solutions to the project. He said he would visit the project site for quick solutions.
Mr Thamanat acknowledged demonstrators’ concern about the Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning’s plan to redefine the project site as an industrial area to pave the way for the project. He said that he asked the department to postpone the plan pending efforts to jointly work out solutions with local residents.
Besides, representatives of the demonstrators were invited to a discussion on the project in Government House. (TNA)
