RATCHABURI, Nov 11 (TNA) – Prime Minister Gen. Prayut
Chan-ocha presided over the ceremony to present certificates of permission for
land utilization to Ratchaburi governor, which will allow local communities to
earn a living on the allocated land in the community forest project.
The prime minister’s field trip began today in
Ratchaburi before he is heading to Kanchanaburi, where he will preside over a
Cabinet retreat tomorrow.
He met about 4,000 local people at the gymnasium hall
of the Ratchaburi Provincial Administrative Organization and gave financial aid
to representatives of farmers under the income guarantee scheme for crops such
as rice and oil palm.
He also went to the old Lao Tak Lak Floating Market in Damnoen Sakuak district to follow up progress in
development of tourism routes along canal networks and agrotourism. Locals
proposed the use of electric boats to reduce pollution there.
The prime minister will then head to Kanchanaburi
province to observe the project to regulate the rafts along the Kwai Yai River and
to open a new housing project for local people in order to solve river
intrusion problem.
He will later visit the 83-year-old paper mill,
planned to be developed into a cultural conservation and historical area for
tourism before joining celebrants to launch a Krathong banana leaf basket in the
Loy Krathong candle light festival this evening.
On Nov 12, Gen Prayut will chair a cabinet retreat
at Kanchanaburi Rajabhat University and a meeting on the economic and social
development of the lower central provincial cluster (Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi
and Suphan Buri).
Local authorities in Kanchanaburi plan to seek the budget
for development of the province’s tourist attractions and drought management. (TNA)
