EIT urges water plan review

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Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 00.00
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The Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) is calling on the government to rethink its 350-billion-baht water management scheme, saying an overhaul is needed and the project management team must be changed.

The EIT was concerned the water management scheme would meet the same fate as the Royal Thai Police Office's troubled project of constructing 396 police stations nationwide, Suwat Chaopreecha, president of the institute, said. He was speaking at a seminar on the water management scheme organised yesterday by the EIT.

"We're concerned the scheme won't finish and that will inevitably shatter public confidence in the government's 2-trillion-baht infrastructure development project," he said. The government should suspend the scheme and replace its management with a new one, he said.

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bikeme
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Discussion 2 : 22 Mar 2013 at 10.292
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In most developed democratic countries, the government appoints experts or hires consultants to look at the situation and create a plan of action. Companies then bid on the projects to complete that plan of action.

But in Thailand, the government comes up with a baht amount, then asks companies to create ideas to spend it on. Kind of backward if you ask me.
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Discussion 1 : 22 Mar 2013 at 02.591
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"EIT urges water plan review".

No need for a review by EIT because there is no water plan. But I think the NACC and the Courts will be quite busy in the years to come.
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