BY: JENNIFER C. TILOS
DUMAGUETE CITY, May 3 (PIA) -- Some P5 million worth of infrastructure projects were inaugurated recently in the three major cities of the province by Governor Roel Degamo with the respective city and barangay officials.
Capitol information officer Adrian Sedillo said, various infrastructure projects were implemented in Dumaguete City which amounted to P1.8M consisting of a road concreting project in Barangay Camanjac worth P500,000 and another road concreting project located in the road leading to Ben Lu Subdivision in Barangay Batinguel amounting to P1.3M.
Bais City also received its own share of completed infrastructure projects totaling to P1.3 million that include road improvement in Barangay Talungon amounting to P600T, improvement of drainage canal at P200 thousand and the improvement of farm to market road in Barangay Oktyot amounting to P500 thousand.
Bayawan City, which got the biggest Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) share among the cities in the province due to its huge land mass, also got some development projects from the provincial government of Negros Oriental.
Sedillo said the city’s completed projects recently totaled to bout P1.8M implemented in three barangays of Bayawan City.
The various development projects include a multipurpose pavement in Barangay Villareal amounting to P500T; road concreting in Barangay San Miguel with P500T; road concreting in Barangay Nangka with P500T; and P300T worth of materials for the improvement of waterworks in Barangay San Miguel.
Degamo said these are among the various infrastructure projects of the provincial government completed recently.
Degamo vows to continue to put forward an aggressive stance in order to bring various infrastructure projects in the barangays which he said are vehicles to attain real peace and development in Negros Oriental.
The people in these areas, through their barangay and city officials, have expressed their gratitude to the provincial government for addressing their concerns regarding good facilities as they are very vital to their daily activities.
The governor said this is the result of his administration’s approach of going down to the barangay level in order to personally know the real concerns of the people especially in the hinterlands.
He added he will continue to extend his hands of cooperation to the various city, municipal and barangay officials in order to bring about the necessary interventions he promised to serve.
“This is the program direction that pushed for “Sa Probinsiya—MagDEGAMO Ta! with H-E-L-P, which means Health, Education, Livelihood Programs and Other projects, as the centerpiece components to attain peace and development in the Province,” the governor said.
Earlier, the governor stated that the provincial government will continue to utilize government projects as vehicles to achieve lasting peace and to effect various developments in the province so the people will live healthy, happy and peaceful.
“Yes, it is very true that the provincial government strongly supported the AFP in the fight to curve the insurgency problem in the province, but we have to also push for the needed intervention such as infrastructure projects which are very essential especially in the hinterland barangays,” the governor said.
He said it has been proven not only here in the country but everywhere else that pure military action cannot win the war and attain peace and development but that it can also be attained through peaceful means by bringing the government closer to the people through government programs and projects. (mbcn/JCT/PIA7-Negros Oriental)