Southern corridor under consideration
published : 7 Apr 2021 at 04:25
2 Officials inspect motorists at a provincial border checkpoint between the southern provinces of Pattani and Narathiwat as a preventive measure against Covid-19. AFP
The government is mulling the establishment of a Southern Border Economic Corridor (SBEC), spanning the southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, along with four districts of Songkhla province Chana, Na Thawi, Saba Yoi and Thepha to ensure greater efficacy in terms of development plans for the region.
Bordin Rassameethes, acting deputy secretary-general of the Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre (SBPAC), said the SBEC was recently pitched as a way to upgrade the government s development plans for the region, an idea similar in form to the existing flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).
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Meeting set to examine moot project
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Downtown Pattani is flooded on Monday. ABDULLAH BENJAKAT
A government committee on Thursday approved four flood prevention projects in Bangkok and a water supply project in Pattani.
The projects were approved at a meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon, said Office of National Water Resources (ONWR) secretary-general Somkiat Prajamwong.
The first project will see a reinforced concrete dam built on Klong Bang Phai and Klong Phraya Ratchamontri in Nonthaburi, which is designed to retain 183,600 cubic metres of water and help drain excess water from the area.
The project, which will take four years to complete, will help prevent flood across a 14-square kilometre area, covering Phasi Charoen, Bang Khae, Nong Khaem and Thawi Watthana districts.