LA TRINIDAD, Benguet—Benguet Rep. Ronald M. Cosalan announced that some P4.3 billion worth of hard and soft infrastructure projects were included in the priority programs of various government agencies that will be implemented in Benguet province next year.
At least P4 billion was included in the annual budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways to fund the repair, rehabilitation, upgrading and concreting of various national roads and bridges provincewide, Cosalan said.
Some P300 million were spread out in the different agencies for the upgrading of farm to market roads, construction of school buildings, improvement of agrarian reform communities, scholarship grants to poor but deserving students, and the provision of basic health services and livelihood programs, among others.
“We are elated that Benguet was allocated substantial funding support for our priority projects, especially the sustained improvement of our national roads, secondary national arterial roads and bridges to enhance the inter-municipal, inter-provincial and inter-regional connectivity that will guarantee the timely delivery of agricultural crops from the farms to the prospective markets inside and outside the region,” Cosalan stressed.
In 2017, Benguet got more than P3.3 billion worth of various hard and soft infrastructure projects implemented in the different parts of the province by various agencies.