More teachers, budget set for South
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- Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 08:00:50 +0800
More teachers, budget set for South
Thailand's Cabinet has approved a proposed emergency measure to recruit almost
2,000 teachers to be given government personnel status and attached to public
schools throughout the country's southernmost provinces in a bid to encourage
them to stay put and keep working on a sustained basis in the turbulent region.
Government Spokesperson Yongyuth Mayalarp said the cabinet resolution calls for
the opening of 1,639 positions for those willing to teach at Deep South schools
and that they be granted benefits and entitlements of government personnel as an
extraordinary measure.
The positions are being made available for public school in Yala, Narathiwat,
Pattani and four districts of Songkhla.
For that matter, the Basic Education Commission will discuss ways and means with
the Budget Bureau to give financial support for the recruitment of those
government teachers.
The Surayud government's latest move to effect some positive change is the
crisis-impacted southern schools apparently followed sustained fears among
teachers who every day risk their lives teaching in the areas riddled with
unrest and their efforts to relocate themselves out of the turbulent region.
Meanwhile, the cabinet also approved plans to have state-owned banks inject
emergency funding to revigorate the languishing Southern economy and to support
varied occupations among local residents, including fishing, rubber and oil palm
planting, halal food processing and animal husbandry.
For the same reason, to inject a further flow of capital resources into
cash-poor the region, the Ministry of Finance is initiating a further
dispersement of some three billion baht of capital -- Bt1.billion in promissory
notes to the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives, about one
billion baht to the Export-Import Bank of Thailand and Bt270 million to the
Small- and Medium-Enterprise (SME) Bank. The promissory notes become due at the
end of July next year. (TNA)
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