The Election Commission (EC) has approved a budget of over 3 billion baht to be set aside from the state coffers for payment to people who participated in the first-car buyer program.
EC Secretary-General Phuchong Nutrawong revealed that the commission had decided to allow the Finance Ministry to use the emergency reserves of the 2014 central budget to fund the first-car buyer scheme, which was running out of money to pay tax rebates to participants. The approved amount is 3.1 billion baht and is set to be handed out to recipients between June and July this year at the rate of 100,000 baht each.
On this occasion, the EC also granted high-ranking diplomatic officials a one-year extension for their term in office. The officials include the Thai Ambassador to New Zealand, the Thai Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York and the Thai Ambassador to The Hague, Netherlands.
Meanwhile, Inspector-General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Warawut Khantiyanan was endorsed as the new Director-General of the Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation.
