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    100 embankment roads to nowhere built by Thailand’s Royal Irrigation Department

    The Royal Irrigation Department has spent about 795 million baht since 2017 building more than 100 canal embankments, similar to the one in Chaichana district of the north-eastern province of Yasothon, as part of the government’s policy to use surplus para rubber latex in road building, to support rubber growers suffering from low rubber prices.


    According to an investigative report on road construction projects, using rubber and asphalt in their surfacing, the Royal Irrigation Department has been allocated about 3.2 billion baht for 400 road construction projects since 2017, including over 100 projects designed to help rubber growers.


    The cost of the so-called para-asphaltic paved roads, or embankments, ranges from one million to 26 million baht per project, depending on the length and other utilities installed, such as solar-cell lighting systems.


    One such road, in Fah Yad sub-district in Yasothon, was recently the subject of an investigation by the provincial office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), because not a single provincial or local official knew who was responsible for its construction. The road runs through a rice field. It was only when irrigation officials from Ubon Ratchathani arrived in Yasothon to explain that light was shed on the “road to nowhere.”


    According to the investigative report, the 1.8km embankment, running parallel to a dry canal, with about 30 power poles fitted with solar-panel lighting, cost 8.4 million baht.


    Nakhon Ratchasima is another north-eastern province where a similar project was implemented by the Royal Irrigation Department. 131 million baht has been spent to date on such projects by the department.


    A village headman, in Na Wang sub-district in Amnat Charoen province said that the embankment in his village, built by the Royal Irrigation Department, is very useful as it facilitates travel between his village and others.


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    At the start of Gen P's reign, Up in Yasothon they had god knows how many roads to nowhere got built as well, and re-surfaced, several of them, a couple of years later.

    They also had a damn built, just for a visit from one of the loved ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    At the start of Gen P's reign, Up in Yasothon they had god knows how many roads to nowhere got built as well, and re-surfaced, several of them, a couple of years later.

    They also had a damn built, just for a visit from one of the loved ones.
    We once spent a million dollars resurfacing and "beautifying" an access road for an upcoming visit of a "VVIP". Naturally the job was given to one of the companies he owned.

    And to top it off, he came another way.


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