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Samui District, in accordance with the concept of decentralization, which means the

decision is to be made by representatives of the state that are inside the area of Ko

Samui District (Prefectorial System), under the governor of Surat Thani Province or

the governor of Ko Samui District. The number of agencies of this type is 24. In

addition, there are 2 other agencies that are state enterprises.

At the same time, throughout the period of the past 7 fiscal years, from

2015 to 2021, each of the agencies of the central government and local

administrative organizations, and state enterprises, have received allocated budgets

to run operations and projects in the area of Ko Samui District, Surat Thani Province,

for 455-901 million baht per fiscal year. Most of the projects that such agencies of

the central government and local administrative organizations, and state enterprises,

have received allocated budgets for the execution in Ko Samui District are under the

responsibilities that are assigned to Nakhon Ko Samui Municipality by central

administrative organizations in accordance with the 2 action plans to set the

procedure of the decentralization to LAOs, and missions of Nakhon Ko Samui

Municipality, but Nakhon Ko Samui Municipality has not received any transferred
responsibility in accordance with the plans, except small ratios of budgets that

different agencies have allocated to the execution of projects that are not included

in the scopes of power and responsibilities of Nakhon Ko Samui Municipality.

Furthermore, throughout the period of the past 7 fiscal years, the Surat

Thani Provincial Administrative Organization, as the LAO with the scope of power

covering the entire province, has allocated budgets for the projects to deliver public

services in the area of Ko Samui District, for 9 million baht to 74 million baht per

fiscal year. Meanwhile, Nakhon Ko Samui Municipality, which is the LAO with the

scope of power covering the entire Ko Samui District, has been able to generate the

revenue for the period of the past 7 fiscal years, for 560-930 million baht, which is for

driving the activities to deliver different public services in order to respond to