Recently, Mr.Sansern Wongcha-um, Deputy Secretary-General of NESDB, in his capacity as a member and assistant secretary to the Eastern Seaboard Development Committee (ESBC), gave an interview, saying that the government is now undertaking the Eastern Seaboard Development Project(ESB) Phase II. A main purpose of this project is to construct a new production base for high technology - oriented industries. ESB Phase II will be a new option for manufacturing and service investments to ease congestion problems of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. In the next ten years, this eastern coastal area will be able to accommodate no less than two million people.
The Cabinet assigned the ESBC to undertake the ESB Phase II like that of the phase I operations. ESBC's resolutions will be regarded as the Cabinet approval, but the ESBC has to conduct a report to inform the Cabinet later, which will help speed up the ESB Phase II.
Four major strategies, as approved by the Cabinet, include a strategy to open up an inner area of the East to link with basic services of the ESB Phase I, a strategy to urge local economies to become a new production base of the country, a strategy to develop water resources, water distribution and flood control, and a strategy to upgrade basic social services to cope with greater migration of people.
Deputy Secretary - General further disclosed that the ESBC places emphasis on preparation of the action plans to attain the ESB Phase II project. All related agencies have to participate in the preparation in order to ensure consistency in implementation. In this regard, NESDB, recently, set up a meeting, for preparing ESB Phase II's action plan. The meeting, comprising expertises from all agencies concerned, mapped out the action plans and implementation of related projects for port and industrial estate development, land use networks, human resource development, downstream industrial development, and the development of community, society and environment.
--Development News Bulletin, National Economic and Social Development Board, Volume 11, No. 5--
The Cabinet assigned the ESBC to undertake the ESB Phase II like that of the phase I operations. ESBC's resolutions will be regarded as the Cabinet approval, but the ESBC has to conduct a report to inform the Cabinet later, which will help speed up the ESB Phase II.
Four major strategies, as approved by the Cabinet, include a strategy to open up an inner area of the East to link with basic services of the ESB Phase I, a strategy to urge local economies to become a new production base of the country, a strategy to develop water resources, water distribution and flood control, and a strategy to upgrade basic social services to cope with greater migration of people.
Deputy Secretary - General further disclosed that the ESBC places emphasis on preparation of the action plans to attain the ESB Phase II project. All related agencies have to participate in the preparation in order to ensure consistency in implementation. In this regard, NESDB, recently, set up a meeting, for preparing ESB Phase II's action plan. The meeting, comprising expertises from all agencies concerned, mapped out the action plans and implementation of related projects for port and industrial estate development, land use networks, human resource development, downstream industrial development, and the development of community, society and environment.
--Development News Bulletin, National Economic and Social Development Board, Volume 11, No. 5--