Bohol solon starts 2012 w/ P55.98M in projects

TAGBILARAN CITY , Philippines  — A set of core projects worth a total of P55.98 million has been lined up for the second district of Bohol by Rep. Erico Aumentado through his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel.

The budget has been charged to Aumentado’s 2011 pork barrel on first and second tranches, the bulk of which was released only last December.

The core projects include municipal and barangay waterworks systems, school buildings, scholarships for poor but deserving students, electrification, botica ng barangay (BnB), sports development, tractors for hybrid corn production and assistance to local government units (LGUs) for social services especially for indigent patients and construction of barangay multi-purpose centers.

Aumentado said he put up P5.5 million for the waterworks systems of the towns of Dagohoy, San Miguel, Ubay, Pres. Garcia, Bien Unido, Getafe, Buenavista, Inabanga, San Isidro, Talibon and Trinidad under the Pres. Aquino’s Water for Waterless Municipalities program.

He also allocated P3 million for 10 barangay waterworks systems programmed by the Bohol 2nd Engineering District in various towns.

For school buildings, he set aside P12.55 million as counterpart to the DepEd’s P11-million fund to build 21 two-classroom school buildings and home economics (HE) buildings for various national high schools in the province.

The National Development Support Command (Nadescom), under Maj. Gen. Carlos Holganza, through the Tubigon-based Engineer Support Battalion (ESBn) headed by Lt. Col. Edwin Ureta, will implement the school buildings project.

Aumentado also allocated P1,7 million for scholarships for valedictorians, salutatorians and poor but deserving students studying in various universities and colleges in Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental, Leyte and Davao.

The congressman further appropriated P3 million to finance the Phase 2 of his district-wide electrification program, after the P5 million for Phase 1, in cooperation with the National Electrification Administration and the Bohol Electric Cooperative.

Subsidies, amounting to P8.93 million, for projects of local governments have been released, P2 million of which was assistance for displaced families affected by calamities, said Aumentado.