Kapampangans benefit anew from 17M-worth of BUB projects

• Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=879027
• Saturday, April 23, 2016

(PR)

A TOTAL of P16.8 million worth of infrastructural and procurement projects were completed directly benefitting thousands of “cabalens,” all of which are funded by the Department of the Interior and Local Government under the Bottom-Up Budgeting Program of the national government.

Addressed on the completed projects were problems of the Kapampangan community on: safe and potable water supply, absence of life-saving and emergency rescue facilities and/or equipment during disaster and onslaught of calamities, absence or poor farm to market roads, among others.

According to DILG Pampanga Director Myrvi Apostol-Fabia, the Department ensures that the completion of these projects be put into top priority, properly turned over to recipient local government units (LGUs) and barangays, to help ease the burdens and difficulties the ordinary Filipino encounter in their daily lives.

“It humbly flatters and inspires us [DILG] to see that the projects we monitored from planning, to implementation, to turn over, were successfully completed and are now benefitting thousands of cabalens in the Province. On one of our scheduled visits, I, personally, got teary-eyed to hear the heartfelt gratitude of the local residents of a community for a seemingly simple but utmost demanded basic life necessities to them like the provision of water supply or construction of road, among others.

“The Department promises that this participatory budgeting process shall continue to bring hope to the Filipino people and address the issues of the basic community in various aspects and multiple dimensions of poverty to [if not totally eradicate] mitigate it and ultimately, gradually uplift their social status through these programs,” she elaborately said in a private interview.

The Bottom-Up Budgeting program advocates the formulation of plans on the utilization of national budget for the realization and implementation of projects the grassroots level themselves identified to address their basic daily living necessities.

A total of P7.7 million were translated into local farm-to-market access roads, P2.9 million into potable water supply projects, and P27.7 million into other infrastructural and procurement projects basically covering life-saving and rescue facilities and equipment, flood control projects, among others.