The government has disbursed 84% or 12.6 billion baht of the budget earmarked for 61,116 villages to fund economic support projects, says the National Village and Urban Community Fund Committee. A total of 15 billion baht was budgeted for gradual transfer to villages across the country under the Pracha Rat initiative. Last year, the government set aside 35 billion baht to finance the Village Fund scheme. Yesterday's committee meeting also approved training programmes for leaders of participating villages next year. The content of the training programmes includes self-sufficiency economic philosophy, law, finance, agriculture, information technology and business management.

Source: Bangkok Post October 31, 2017 00:22 UTC