Land is limited resources while number of population is gradually
increase as well as economy and society is continually growing. As a result,
people gradually encroach on public land which leads to conflict with government
sector. The government, therefore, has resolved this problem by prescribing
land use policy in order to allocate public waste land to the people for their
livelihood. Ministry of Interior has designated
 | Department of Lands to set up“the Public Land Allocation Project for Poverty Eradication” with the
objectives to allocate land for living and generating income in order to
eradicate poverty since 2004 by selecting public land parcel which it was
terminated for the mutual utilization of the people and that land partly or all
encroached, the encroacher must be poor people and has no land or not enough cultivated land. |
They must accept the implementation under the integrated social
and poverty problem policy. They have to file official request registration for
land. Department of Lands shall proceed to allocate the public land the same condition
as previously occupied.
Each plot of land, which was allocated, shall not exceed 15 rai (6 acres). Department of Lands shall issues the temporary permission certificate under the Ministry of Interior Regulation on the Permission for People in Utilizing Public Land B.E. 2547 (2004), the permission certificate shall valid for 5 consecutive years from the date of issuance and be able to renew the permission by paying remuneration to Local Administrative Organization with the rate that not exceed 1,000 Baht (mostly 10, 20 or 100 Baht/Rai/Year as stipulated by Local Administrative Organization). From fiscal year 2004 – 2016, Department of Lands has allocated such land for people with the amount of 115,399 parcels to 96,992 households, approximately land area of 413,708 rai in 64 provinces.
