The cabinet, the National Legislative Assembly and the National Reform Steering Assembly last month agreed in principle to endorse a bill governing local administration organisations. The dissolved TAOs will be merged with the nearest larger TAO whose status will be changed to tambon municipality. It will also increase the chances of local politicians with a larger base of influence to take control of new local administration bodies. But these same problems exist in central administration offices. The decentralisation process aims to channel at least 35% of the national budget to all 7,853 local administrative bodies.

Source: Bangkok Post November 17, 2016 21:50 UTC