TAK: The Interior Ministry is set to propose a new regulation to develop Mae Sot district into a special economic zone at the cabinet meeting in Uttaradit province on Monday.
Deputy Interior Minister Chatt Kuldiloke revealed the plan before attending a meeting on Sunday evening. He was speaking while visiting the districts of Mae Sot, Mae Ramat and Phop Phra in Tak this morning.
Pol Lt Gen Chatt said he had been assigned by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to inspect areas to be used as construction sites for future development projects as the government wanted to turn the districts into a special economic and administrative zone to support border trade with Myanmar and respond to the formation of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.
The cabinet was expected to receive several budgetary requests from the province and its vicinities during the two-day meeting.
At Sunday’s meeting, Tak authorities would propose the expansion of the 84-kilometreTak-Mae Sot Highway and a railway track project from Tak to Mae Sot.
The province would also propose the establishment of village surface water supply systems, improvement of an international stadium and construction of a steel reinforced concrete road in tambon Chong Kab of Phop Phra district, said Pol Lt Gen Chatt.
Banpot Korkietchareon, president of Tak Chamber of Commerce, said the private sector would ask Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to establish the Mae Sot-Myawaddy joint trade and investment zone opposite Ban Rim Moei near the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge.
