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DepEd explains abandoned school building construction
« on: August 31, 2016, 06:03:30 PM »
DepEd explains abandoned school building construction

Sept 2014 - CARMEN, Bohol – The division office of the Department of Education in this city explained last week why just started laying out the foundation for a school building in Calatrava Elem School was bandoned.

Teachers of this school in barangay Calatrava of this landlocked town are wondering why the construction of their new school building was abandoned by the constractor.

One teacher, who asked not to be named, said in an interview that the contractor just started digging up big holes for building foundation but days after it abandoned the said works, leaving them in limbo.

In a separate interview, school principal Belen Cempron confirmed this but she cannot give details of the predicament.

Teaching force here has been yearning for new school buildings to replace the old buildings which almost collapsed and cannot be used anymore for dangerous cracks all over following the earthquake last year. They said it’s almost a year but the government’s action is very slow.

According to the teachers that the the Department of Education funded the construction but the Department of Public Works and Highways implemented it. The latter sub-contracted it to a certain BMC constrctuion firm based here.

In an interview, planning officer II Amelia Cortidor of DepEd said that said construction was stopped because the funds is not intended for it. She said that such fund is for the “integrated” school here. But this school, which used to be one (a combination of elementary and secondary), is not anymore integrated.

The secondary school of this baranay has been transferred to its new site, now named as Potenciano Ramasola National High School, since the lot is owned by the Ramasola family, she said.

Probably, there were some lapses in identifying the site that the said fund was wrongly implemented, Cortidor said.

She said that the said fund was not intended for school building construction destroyed by the earthquake as what the teachers want to believe. The said budget was already there prior to the tremor, she added.

The teachers said that the construction was discontinued by the said contractor since the fund is said not intended for the said school but to Calatrava public secondary school instead.

Cong. Arthur Yap vowed to look into it. Vice-Mayor Pedro Budiongan and barangay chairperson Crisanta Añusa told the tutors to do the same.

Yap and other officials inaugurated a four-classroom “transitional” building made of light materials to house the schoolchildren in this barangay whose old building was destroyed by the tremor. The American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (AmCham) donated the said building. Atty. Archie Gonzales and Rorie Castañares Hinscliff, a Boholana, represented the AmCham. (RVO)

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