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''' | '''DENR urges LMP-Bohol to initiate local land titling program''' | ||
*Source: | *Source: www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1101331987046 | ||
*By: | *By: Rey Anthony H. Chiu | ||
*''March | *''March 18, 2012'' | ||
CORTES, Bohol- The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) in Bohol urged members of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP Bohol Chapter) to initiate a local government-led land titling program as potent source of revenues. | |||
Bohol PENRO Nestor Canda informed the mayors in a March 15 league meeting that around 100,000 lots in Bohol had been parceled and most of them are untitled. | |||
“Several of these untitled lots are actually residential and are right in the heart of towns,” Canda said and added that untitled lots indicated low economic activity. | |||
The PENRO explained that untitled lots can not be made as loan collaterals hence, fewer investments and slower economic growth and less job creation opportunities. | |||
Canda noted that for towns with poor tax collection they usually do not get the most realty tax revenues from untitled lots. | |||
These results to tax arrears that constraints LGUs to collect taxes from their constituents thus, hampering local budgeting and income, Canda stated. | |||
He told the mayors that the situation also breeds poor social services and more poverty issues. | |||
“Not to mention conflict between and among family heirs, clans and neighbors squabbling over boundaries,” Canda shared. | |||
Campaigning for support to the government land titling program, Canda said World Bank funded the Land Administration Management Project (LAMP 1 and 2) that had been terminated but the DENR saw possible funding from the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program funds which ends in 2014. | |||
To impress upon the mayors the economic potentials of LGU-led titling program, Canda informed the local executives that in its LAMP heydays, Bohol distinguished herself with the biggest number of distributed land titles. | |||
DENR-CENRO information officer Glicerita Racho added that the learning in putting up LGU-led land titling has become a national template. | |||
“The Maribojoc-led Land Titling program has earned the town the Galing Pook Award for Innovation last year,” Racho told the mayors. | |||
Racho added that while DENR is mandated to process land titling even beyond LAMP, she encouraged the LMP to set up their respective LGU-led titling and land information programs because it has all the potentials for increase tax revenues and an orderly documentation of all land information stored at the Municipal Assessor’s Office. | |||
Racho also pointed out that most LGU concerns are land related: real property tax, business and building permits, natural resource share, solid waste management, urban development and housing as well as environmental protection. | |||
“Just think of how many conflicts and issues can be resolved in issuing land titles,” Canda concluded. | |||
==Bohol Zip Codes== | ==Bohol Zip Codes== | ||