6 NIA execs in NE relieved

CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines – Six division managers of the National Irrigation Administration’s Upper Pampanga River Integrated Irrigation Systems (UPRIIS) in Nueva Ecija were relieved from their posts on Monday in the first wave of revamp under the leadership of NIA administrator Carlo Maranan.

Relieved were UPRIIS engineers Freddie Tuquero, Santos Viernes, Joselito Mangunay, Eugenio Conde, Carlito Gapasin, and Cristino Castillo.

UPRIIS operates the Pantabangan Dam, the country’s largest national irrigation system which irrigates 100,000 hectares of farmlands in Nueva Ecija and parts of Pampanga and Bulacan.