Thai government to distribute copies of national strategies

BANGKOK, May 2 (TNA) - The Thai government will distribute 150,000 copies of a book on national strategies nationwide next week, describing the administration’s work and future projects. Government Spokesman Tosaporn Serirak told reporters on Thursday that, through the book, people and public and private agencies will then understand the government’s national administration and will cooperate with national development policies. According to the spokesman, the book elaborates on the government’s work in its first year of national administration, policy implementation in the second year and economic and social development through several important strategies, including the enhancement of competitiveness, logistics and infrastructure development, the reduction of social inequality and the development of national administration. The spokesman acknowledged that Thailand's preparations for the ASEAN Community (AC) by 2015 and the Thailand Strategy 2020 are also included in the book. Anong Paijitprapapon, Director of the Bureau of Logistics of, under the Ministry of Industry's Department of Primary Industries and Mines, assessed, meanwhile, that the Thai government's new 2-trillion-baht rail projects should cut national logistic costs, from 15.2 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2011 or 11 trillion baht to 12 per cent of the GDP, over the next five years or within 2017, pointing out if the cost reduction was achieved, national capabilities would further improve then. (TNA)