BANGKOK, Oct 11 The National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) has proposed six reform measures for human resource development to the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) which seized administrative power in Thailand on May 22.
NIDA professors said during a press conference on Friday that the six measures need to be urgently considered by the NCPO as they could help the poor and reduce social disparity in Thailand.
The NCPO is embarking on massive national reform, designed towards ridding poverty, corruption and other malpractices prevailing in the country, which NIDA said in its proposal that “nothing has changed in the Thai society for more than five decades, and the. law isn’t law.”
The six proposals include decentralization of power so rural organisations could make a decision with government agencies; mapping out policies and plans which could distribute state resources to rural areas and prepare communication; and social and policy areas for middle-income earners living in cities and villages so that they could share information with each other.
Other proposals are lowering influence of businessmen and increasing the role of community representatives; reforming tax system in which the rich would have to pay higher taxes and such taxes on inheritance and land must be collected; and increasing directing communication channels from communities to the central government.
NIDA proposes that solving social disparity in the long-term must be done through boosting production and competition; developing human capability and technology; and building innovative products which could compete overseas.
Most importantly, the government must urgently end corruption in the country because it is the root cause of social disparity and social injustice.
