Several state projects which have failed to materialise over the past three decades, initiated by a series of governments, have cost almost a hundred billion baht of taxpayers' money. Meanwhile, the fate of some projects now under way still hangs in the balance.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha last week ordered that a new residential area for justice officials be found after the government decided to scrap the billion-baht housing and office project for judges and officials at the foot of Doi Suthep in Chiang Mai.
While the decision defused growing discontent from residents about the former national park land, the public still recoiled at the thought of the government planning to spend more taxpayer's money on a new housing project for the judges. The project was nearly complete when the regime pulled the plug.
