The Cabinet yesterday approved the creation of a youth-development agency, which will be subsidised by tariff imposed on the sales of liquor and cigarettes.
Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat said the ceiling of the fund would be no more than 1.5 per cent of the entire alcohol and tobacco tariff, similar to the Bt2 billion subsidy given to Thai Health Promotion Foundation each year.
The new agency will be operating in place of the Quality Learning Foundation, which has a narrower scope of responsibility and function.
The ministry, which pushed for the establishment of this agency, was instructed by the Cabinet to come up with details of the body's future operations before it can be given the final approval and properly established.