More secondary students will hold classes in brand new school buildings starting June this year, some passing through newly concreted or recently soil stabilized provincial roads after Gov. Erico Aumentado inaugurated some P26 million worth of infrastructure projects in a spree Friday and Saturday.
Aumentado led inaugural rites of school buildings at the Pablo O. Lim Memorial High School (POLMHS) in Barangay Marawis in Valencia town, Lonoy Heroes High School in Barangay Lonoy in Jagna town and the Camayaan High School in Barangay Camayaan in Loboc town.
He also inaugurated the newly-concreted Poblacion-Cabungaan-Lonoy provincial road in Jagna; another in Batuan town; asphalt overlay of the road leading to the Chocolate Hills in Carmen town and soil stabilization of a road in Loboc as well as the bailey bridge that replaced the foot bridge in Barangay Tigbao, also in Loboc town.
A joint project of the provincial government of Bohol and the Department of Education (DepEd) under Secretary Jesli Lapus, the school buildings cost only P780,000 each – way below the costing of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) or even DepEd’s Principal-LED projects.
Aumentado said the DPWH costing is high because it charges supervision fees at the levels of the district engineer and the regional and central offices at 3.5 percent each. The governor and Lapus had signed a memorandum of agreement where the provincial government implements the project, undertaken by local contractors or where there are no takers, by the Engineer Support Battalion (ESBn) under its commander Lt. Col. Ramon Evan Ruiz.
The school buildings have two classrooms, each at the standard floor area of 56 squares meters at eight meters by seven meters, fully painted inside and out, with electrical wiring, toilet with plumbing, and blackboards as designed by the provincial government.
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