Cabinet to consider extra flood holidays today

Cabinet to consider extra flood holidays today

The Flood Relief Operations Center (FROC) is planning to ask the Cabinet to mull over the extension of flood holidays in today’s meeting as the flood situation in the capital still persists.

In his capacity as the Director of the FROC, Justice Minister Police General Pracha Promnog disclosed that the center had already proposed to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra the prolongation of public holidays amid the ongoing flood crisis. He expected the matter to be brought to consideration during the emergency session of the Cabinet today.

Previously, the Cabinet made a resolution to designate 27-31 October as national holidays for government agencies within 21 flood-affected provinces, including Bangkok. The objective is to allow local residents to move to safer areas before the arrival of the northern runoff and high tides and to facilitate the officials’ operations to tackle the flood problem.

BANGKOK, 30 October 2011 (NNT) – Reporter : Surapan Laotharanarit
News Date : 30 October 2011