The San Carlos City Site Coordinating Team (SCT) and Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation, and Unity (OPAPRU) representatives conducted a site validation of the proposed four-kilometer road concreting project, worth P60 million, in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental Nov. 24.
The road project traverses Sitio Pagbatangan to Sitio Nangka in Brgy. Bagonbon, and is funded by OPAPRU, through its Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (Pamana) program.
Pamana project development officer Kenneth dela Cruz said if the P60 million project is approved this December, the national government will implement it in the first quarter of 2024, with funding coming from next year’s General Appropriations.
Dela Cruz said that Pamana has already implemented the concreting of the three-kilometer road in Sitio Nangka under the 2017 budget, the city said in a press release Nov. 25.
Kapatiran vice chairman Godofredo Bayog-ang said that the national and local governments have already provided livelihood programs and projects for beneficiaries, such as rice mill construction worth P500,000 in 2017, another P300,000 for their rice retailing business in 2022, a drying pavement, and covered court.
He thanked the government for its commitment during the signing of the peace agreement, which is to provide development in their area.
After the site project validation in Brgy. Bagonbon, the group held a meeting where Pamana focal person, Engr. Dhebeth Suralta, of the City Planning and Development Coordinator’s Office discussed the completed and status of ongoing projects, such as the level water system, public cemetery, covered court, skills training on pineapple, meat processing, swine and goat dispersal, and cattle raising.
The beneficiaries of the program are mass supporters, who have already returned to the fold of the government. ||
