The cabinet has agreed in principle to a 7.71-billion-baht project offering help to 27,084 low-income households evicted from state land required for a rail transport development project, deputy government spokeswoman Rachada Dhnadirek said yesterday.
Proposed by the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, the project aims to turn these “state land encroachers” into lawful community residents, she said. The project was initially approved by the cabinet on Tuesday.
The five-year project will be implemented from later this year until 2027 to find proper living quarters for the families who now reside in about 300 communities in 35 provinces. Houses or apartments would be built on land owned by the State Railway of Thailand (SRT), the Treasury Department or private…
