By Nanette Guadalquiver/PNA
BACOLOD CITY — Some 561 residents in a remote village of Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental are benefiting from the PHP11.28-million road concreting project implemented by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
The newly-concreted road, constructed by Negros Occidental’s 3rd District Engineering Office, has provided a conducive and faster transport of goods and services for the people of Sitio Lowag in Barangay Locotan in Kabankalan City.
District Engineer Haydee Alunan, in a statement on Wednesday, said the project has been funded under the Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) program initiated by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP).
“This is one of the infrastructure projects implemented to lessen the insurgency cases in winning the long-lasting peace process anchored on the PAMANA program,” Alunan said.
The project involves the concrete paving of 718 lineal meters of road with five-meter wide portland concrete cement pavement, including pipe culverts and grouted riprap.
Alunan said the project provides a better road network in isolated and vulnerable areas in Kabankalan City due to insurgency problems.
Last month, DPWH 6 (Western Visayas) also announced another project in southern Negros, the construction of an academic building at the Hinigaran National High School in Hinigaran town.
The project is being implemented by Negros Occidental’s 2nd District Engineering Office headed by District Engineer Randolfo Melosantos in convergence with the Department of Education.
Melosantos said earlier the PHP45.154-million project involves the construction of a four-story, 20-classroom building.
He added that the project is expected to be completed in August to serve the increasing number of senior high school students.
