by PNA: An eight-billion peso
World Bank (WB)-funded farm-to-market road project is in the pipeline for Central Philippines, including the province of Negros Oriental, according to Rep. Pryde Henry Teves of the 3rd district of the province.
Teves just arrived
from a trip in America sponsored by the Committee on Rural Development in Congress where he attended a series of meetings with WB officials, as well as the United States Department of Agriculture, including actual farm tours in Maryland and
Virginia.
The solon said he met with the WB country manager to ask for projects and was informed about the package, where local government units in Central Philippines may avail of.
Dubbed as the Central Philippines Rural Development Project (CPRDP),the World Bank is budgeting the equivalent of P8 billion for
farm to market roads in four regions of Central Philippines.
The counterparting scheme would be 80 percent funded by the WB and only 20 percent by LGUs that are interested.
This means that if an LGU allocates for P200,000 farm to market roads, P800,000 will be funded by the world bank to make it a P1 million project.
This early, Teves is urging LGUs in the province to communicate with the World Bank through the country manager or to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) of their intention to avail of the project and to already allocate the same in their 2013 executive budget for the realization of the project in 2014.
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