The Department of Agrarian Reform on Monday thanked the Anti-Red Tape Authority for recognizing its effort to streamline and improve its critical services.
In a July 4 letter, director general Ernesto Perez, ARTA officer in charge, “commend(ed) the efforts of DAR” to speed up and simplify its processes.
“We commend the efforts of DAR in implementing changes in support of the implementation of R.A. 11032 or the ‘Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Delivery of Government Services Act of 2018,’” Perez told Undersecretary Lucius Jun-Jun Malsi of DAR’s Finance, Management and Administration Office.
According to Agrarian Reform Secretary John Castriciones, the actions required in availing of the agency’s critical services in its central and regional offices have been reduced by up to eight steps.
Because of this, DAR was able to achieve a faster turnaround by up to 65 days.
Steps in the application for land use conversion under the regional land use conversion committee of DAR’s regional offices have been reduced by half, down to eight from 16.
The expected completion is now pegged at 26 days from 42 days.
The processing of land use conversion for lots with over five hectares, which is under the Bureau of Agrarian Legal Assistance of the central office, shall now take only 30 days from 90.