SOLANO, Nueva Vizcaya – A multi-million peso worth of public market designed to suit the needs of persons with disabilities as well as the elderly will be put up in this landlocked province’s commercial town.
The project, probably the first of such kind of local-government-run market in the region, is now underway through a P65-million loan allocation from the Land Bank of the Philippines, with the bank already approving the release of the first tranche, good for the construction of two of the building’s planned three storeys.
According to Solano Mayor Philip Dacayo, the improvement of this town’s public market, is actually part of the town’s long-term development plan, part of which is to make the said market more accessible to all residents from here and nearby towns and provinces, especially the physically disabled and elderly.
“We have always been saying that we are concerned of the elderly and the disabled and yet when they go to the public market, there are no facilities to help them in their shopping,” Dacayo said. – Charlie Lagasca