Panel gives nod to 30 Northeast projects

A public-private joint committee has approved 30 development projects worth over 16.4 billion baht that will be carried out across the upper Northeast.

- PHUSADEE ARUNMAS

The cabinet will be asked to approve the budget for some of these projects when it meets for a mobile meeting in Nakhon Phanom later today.

According to Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungruangkit, who chaired the committee meeting yesterday, nine projects can begin right away.

They include an Interior Ministry project to improve the landscape along the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom’s Muang district, a project to develop the Geo Park Centre in Nakhon Phanom’s Tha Uthen district and a project to develop Sakon Nakhon into a creative economy city.

Of them, four projects proposed by provinces in the upper Northeast are worth 200 million baht, and the other five projects proposed by the private sector are also worth 200 million baht.