Members of the media will be invited to sit on a committee to monitor the scandal-plagued community sufficiency programme, says Mechai Viravaidya who is tipped to head the scheme.
The vice chairman of the Community Sufficiency Economy Project said he would set up the committee to work on new strategies to clean up the programme as soon as he was appointed by the prime minister as chairman of the board of directors of the Sufficiency Economy for Community Development Programme.
The committee's duties would include keeping track on sufficiency project activities. It would include at least two members of the media who would follow up on the projects.
Mr Mechai said he had been thinking of ways to overhaul the programme but said he could not say much because he had not yet been named chairman.
He would present his plans for a revamp of the programme when he meets the prime minister.
Sufficiency projects have come under the spotlight after it was found equipment such as water machines bought by villagers were grossly overpriced.
Complaints have also been raised about a monopoly on the sale of the equipment enjoyed by suppliers with links to the government and officials.
Mr Mechai, the founder of the Population and Development Association, said the programme must adhere to key fundamental principles.
Villagers must take the initiative in running the projects, which must strengthen the villages.
He said communities in the past had not participated actively in the projects because they were not adequately informed about them.
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