BACOLOD City – The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in this city wants a 100-percent city government compliance to the road clearing order of President Rodrigo Duterte.
The Interior department recently directed local executives nationwide to clear roads of obstructions within 75 days in a second round of clearing.
“Madamo pa ang ulubrahon sang syudad kag sang mga barangays,” said DILG city director Ma. Joy Maredith Madayag.
About 30 percent of villages here are not yet fully compliant, she said, pointing out informal settlers, junks, illegally parked vehicles, and other road encroachments.
The first round of street-clearing operations saw the demolition of structures like sheds and village outposts that had encroached onto roads.
DILG gave this capital city an 87 percent rating for the first round of road clearing last year.
Under DILG Memorandum Circular 2020-027, all local government units are to remove obstructions in provincial, city, municipal and barangay roads, and national primary and secondary roads.
Barangay executives will be in charge of the road-clearing operations in barangay roads and minor public-use streets within their jurisdictions. They are also ordered to maintain other local roads turned over by the city or municipal government./PN
