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Efficient management can make the difference
in anti-poverty program-Belmonte
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. today expressed confidence that
the Department of
Public Works and Highways will make good the Presidents
anti-poverty programs by
providing good and effective road network, flood control
structures and basic
infrastructures through efficient management of resources.
The recent typhoons only highlighted the gargantuan
responsibilities of
government to mitigate the devastation and loss of lives in the
aftermath of natural
calamities, Belmonte said as the Senate tackles the
House-approved P1.816-trillionnational budget, of which P109.633
billion goes to the DPWH.
Noting a report by Secretary Rogelio Singson during the budget
deliberations
before the House Committee on Appropriations chaired by Rep.
Joseph Emilio Abaya,
Belmonte stressed the need for efficient program management to
successfully implement
the DPWHs 2012 budget priorities.
The proposed infrastructure program should be supported but the
DPWH should
never deviate from management efficiency to ensure that every
peso goes to where itshould be. Belmonte said, adding that
efficient management includes the insurance
against corruption.
In his report to the Speaker, Abaya recalled that Singson
enumerated his agencys
2012 priorities as follows: (1) Flood control projects of
highest impact and economic
returns (urban centers and food productions areas) by doing
convergence projects with
the Department of Agriculture and the DENR; (2) Flood control
within major and
principal rivers and providing protection to national roads; (3)
Adopting Climate Change
Adaptation (CCA) strategies, Disaster Risk Reduction Management
(DRRM) and the eco-efficiency concept in water related projects;
(4) Priority to arterial (primary) over
secondary national roads; (5) Priority to access tourism roads,
airports and RORO ports
and food production areas and economic zones; (6) Public-Private
Partnership (PPP)
projects based on priority list; and (7) Managing truck
overloading (over bridges) through
enforcement of laws.
Singson revealed that of the total 15,872 kilometers of national
arterial roads, only
91% is paved, 18% of the paved sections need to be
rehabilitated. Of the 15,370
kilometers of national secondary roads, only 71% is paved, 12%
of the paved sectionsneed to be rehabilitated, and about 81% of the
total national road network is paved, 15%
of the paved sections also need to be rehabilitated.
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Furthermore, of the 345,978 linear meters (lms) of national
bridges, 10.594 lms
(3%) are due for reconstruction, 40,675 lms (12%) for
repair/rehabilitation and 10,935 lms
(3%) of temporary bridges will be made permanent, Singson
reported.
Of the top ten priority projects under the PPP Program, the DPWH
proposed three,
namely: (1) the Daang Hari SLEX Connection; (2) the NAIA
Expressway elevated
structures, Phase II and (3) the South Luzon and North Luzon
Expressway Connector.
Bidding for the 1st PPP project is ongoing and the expected
submission of bids will be on
December 2011.
As of July 2011, the DPWH reported that out of the total 2,124
projects being
implemented with a total cost of P52.566-billion, 1,631 or 77%
were advertised with atotal cost of P36.472-billion.
Of the projects advertised, Singson said, 1,516 or 71% coasting
P31.120 billion
were bid-out of which 1,255 or 59% with a total cost of
P24.160-billion were awarded or
already started. He clarified that the remaining projects were
delayed due to longer
preparation of their program of works. (30) dpt
