Cabinet bounces 2 million rights “We travel together”



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On March 9, 2021, at the Government House, Mr. Anucha Buropchaisri, spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office. He announced after the Cabinet meeting (Cabinet) that the original project that we traveled together, Phase Three will have additional rights that will be extended, but today the Cabinet still does not approve the details of the extension of the rights to the project We travel together From now on, the Relevant agencies such as the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports. Consideration should also be given to being more concise when formulating an anti-corruption approach to ensure that concrete actions can be taken to resolve the problem. Which will be returned to the Board of Directors for a loan in the form of a project that we travel together or in a new design. The cabinet has given the relevant agencies to consider to proceed in detail and bring them back to present to the cabinet once more.

The right of use during the new COVID-19 epidemic can be used until May 31, 2021, with approximately 50,000 rights.

A source from the cabinet meeting revealed that TAT has set out to refine the details of the project details, we traveled together. When requesting to extend the number of 2,000,000 additional rights and extend the project implementation period from the original end of the exercise period on April 30, 2021 and the disbursement of the budget until June 30, 2021 until the end of the Exercise period on July 31, 2021 and budget disbursement until September 30, 2021 of the original project budget (15 billion baht).

A source from the Loan Expenditure Review Committee revealed that it had proposed to Cabinet that it consider assigning TAT review or revise the project as follows: 1. Cancel the government funding for the electronic coupon or set the value to be related to the value of the room, for example, 40% of the room rate.

2. Establish fraud prevention strategies that will help ensure that concrete action can be taken. In cases where it is necessary to develop systems such as facial scanning systems It is necessary to clearly discuss and prepare with Krung Thai Bank in terms of the time frame and the plan showing how to use the project privileges. To use in promoting the project to the public. To understand and prevent confusion

3. Cancel the conditions assigned to the Ministry of Finance. By the Fiscal Policy Office Determine the rules, conditions and qualifications of the person who is eligible to receive money according to the project and make the disbursement by disbursement method. In accordance with the Cabinet resolution of June 30, 2020 to operate in a unified manner and help TAT to have more flexibility in the implementation of the project.

TAT news source. He revealed that the governor of TAT Propose 2 measures to prevent actions that may generate corruption within the framework of the project, which are: 1. Requirements for hotels to present information on the rate plan compared to room rates for 2019. From the OTA to verify the suitability of the number and price of the rooms incurred under the project.

AND 2. By prescribing additional conditions to the public, the appropriate user must reserve the accommodation at least 2 weeks prior to the originally scheduled 3 day stay to allow sufficient time to investigate any abnormal information and stop paying for fraudulent transactions.

In addition, TAT has also implemented other anti-fraud guidelines, such as the anti-wear system of facial scanning and confirmation of the correct user identity at a Krung Thai Bank branch that TAT must discuss with Krung Thai Bank. And it is expected to take a period of time to complete



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