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By: Resel Joy Tianero
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ILOILO City – For the past three years, Western Visayas (WV) has been steadfast in moving forward from the ruins left by super typhoon “Yolanda”.
The rehabilitation and improvement of national roads and bridges have restored mobility for the delivery of basic services across the region while electric cooperatives have successfully reenergized affected communities and widened their services areas to include barangays and sitios.
The total project cost for “Yolanda” relief operations was P35,224,000. Of the amount, P32,411,000, which represents 92 percent was released to Western Visayas.
In 2013, relief operations were given attention while in 2014, the Rehabilitation Assistance for “Yolanda” (RAY) started and was fully implemented in 2015 with almost 9,000 projects already implemented.
“Out of the 35 million, an estimated 20 million was disbursed. This only show that the money released for typhoon ‘Yolanda’ was big enough,” said Atty. Raul S. Anlocotan, assistant regional director for NEDA-6.
A total of 6,065 out of the 9,214 proposed programs, projects and activities were already completed while 1,606 of these activities and projects are ongoing, gathering a 65.82 percent accomplishment on “Yolanda” projects.
The bulk of the remaining projects include newly identified programs and projects funded under the Department of the Interior and Local Government RAY which covers infrastructures facilities at the barangay level and national housing authority, local water facilities administration and national electrification administration infrastructure projects to be implemented.
“Ini bala nga mga kuryente, tubig, kag mga additional housing units, amo ni ang mga nagkalabilin nalang gid ,” said Anlocotan.
Putting in mind the vulnerability of the region to natural calamities, the infrastructure cluster raised the minimum standard of infrastructure specification to a higher level so as to improve resiliency while the mapping out of hazard prone areas was undertaken and served as a reference in the planning and implementation of different rehabilitations./PN
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