View source for DTI releases PHP2.7M worth of BUB projects in Pangasinan

*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=901308
*Tuesday, July 5, 2016
:(PNA), FFC/LVM/RMA

SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan, July 5 (PNA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has released PHP1.7 million worth of check to the local government unit (LGU) of San Fabian to fund the upgrading of its existing Business Permit and Licensing Sustem (BPLS), and another PHP1 million to a local Persons with Disability (PWD) cooperative under the Bottoms Up Budgeting (BUB) program.

The DTI said the municipality in 2012 has successfully implemented the streamlining of its permits and licensing services through the BPLS using the Unified Application Form of Business Permit Application and the manual method of computation in assessment fees.

Now, to make the service faster, more reliable and delivered on real-time, the LGU has embarked on an electronic system of processing permits and licenses through the 2015 BuB project using computer hardware and software to be purchased using the fund. Preparations of the system analysis and design was funded under the BUB 2014 amounting PHP200,000.

Meanwhile, the DTI released another PHP1-million check to the San Fabian PWDs Consumers Cooperative to implement its Yaman Pinoy BuB 2015 project, believing that disabilities are not hindrances to achieve success, giving high hopes to the members of the cooperative to use the opportunity productively.

The fund will provide livelihood opportunities and at the same time improve the capacities of the intended beneficiaries through training.

The DTI expressed hope that through empowerment, the group will have the competence to implement their livelihood project producing quality products such as candles to be sold commercially.

Candle-making is a thriving livelihood activity in the area due to the presence of a pilgrimage site in nearby municipality of Manaoag. The candles to be produced has a ready market because religious stores in the site's continuous demand for the item to be sold to pilgrims. The churches all over the province and nearby provinces constitute also a big market for this item.