78 applicants vie for NBTC board slots

A total of 78 candidates have submitted their applications to vie for seven new member positions on the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) board as the seven-day application period concluded on Tuesday.

Former NBTC secretary-general Takorn Tantasith showed up on the last day to submit his application.

In January this year, he failed to make the shortlist of 14 candidates for membership of the NBTC board in the second recruitment round, which was eventually scrapped.

Pakdee Manaves and Air Marshal Thanapant Raicharoen — both incumbent deputy secretary-generals of the NBTC — also applied. So did former NBTC deputy secretary-general Korkij Danchaivichit and Vunnaporn Devahastin, secretary-general of the office of National Digital Economy and Society Committee.

A source at the Secretariat of the Senate, which handles the application…