DILG okays release of PHP35.5-M road upgrade for Cebu Province

• Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=873924
• Wednesday, April 6, 2016

(PNA), LAP/EB/EDS

CEBU CITY, April 6 (PNA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has asked the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to release to Cebu province the PHP35.5 million intended for road improvements under the Kalsada program.

The DILG informed DBM Secretary Butch Abad that the Cebu Provincial Government has already complied with the requirements set in the special provisions of the 2016 General Appropriations Act along with the Province of Batanes.

Dubbed “Konkreto at Ayos na Lansangan at Daan Tungo saPangkalahatang Kaunlaran” (Kalsada), the program is aimed atinstitutionalizing good governance by enabling and shepherding local government units on local road management.

Cebu was among the 73 out of 81 provinces selected by DBM under the PHP6.5-billion road rehabilitation in the 2016 P3-trillion national budget.

The provinces were selected based on their compliance with the DILG’s Seal of Good Financial Housekeeping and submission of their Local Public Financial Management Assessment Report to the DBM.

Cebu province won the Seal of Good Governance of the DILG for two consecutive years starting in 2014.

In the same years, the province also topped the list of richest provinces of the country in the Annual Financial Report of the Commission on Audit.

The Cebu Provincial Engineering and Planning and Development offices identified the 3.7-kilometer portion of Barangay Dakit, Bogo City to Barangay, Nipa Cayaan Tabogon road in northern Cebu as the project beneficiary.

Under the program, the province is required to provide a counter fund of more than P15 million, raising the total amount to at least P50 million.

Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III said the province is expected to get some PHP338.5 million for road improvements stretching to 17 kilometers in next year’s Kalsada program.