RPOC adopts Dagupan’s anti-poverty program
ANTI-INSURGENCY STRATEGY
PROVIDE opportunities for livelihood and quality education. Improve health and sanitation. Provide decent housing.
These are some of the activities that form part of the strategy formulated by the Dagupan City government that the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) decided to adopt to help fight poverty and counter-insurgency in others parts of the region.
This adoption of the Dagupan’s strategy was agreed upon during the RPOC meeting last week, citing the gains made by the Fernandez administration’s anti-poverty program to bring the government closer to the people.
The meeting decided on the strategy when the problem on insurgency was tackled.
“The council decided that the city’s anti-poverty program is the best practical approach to dissuade the poor from joining the communist movement and take arms against the government,” Mayor Belen T. Fernandez told newsmen.
In Dagupan, the program has been capsulized under its “Unliserbisyo” (Unlimited Service) to address the need for food on the table, their health, livelihood, employment and housing.
Fernandez explained that the activities could be accomplished through the convergence of national agencies’ resources with the local governments’ in delivering the basic services to the people especially the far-flung areas.
In the same meeting, RPOC also discussed the San Roque Dam management’s spillway protocol in view of the onset of the rainy season. and how to prepare communities in case the opening of the spillway gates might be necessary.
The National Power Corporation will be invited to the next meeting to explain how the dam management and protocol works.
“We need among others to establish accountability, like who gives the authorization to open the spillway gates– Is it the San Roque Dam Management or Napocor?” Fernandez said.
Fernandez expressed serious concern over the seeming lack of readiness and contingency plan of the San Roque Multi-Purpose dam in case a strong earthquake hits the province.
“We have to remember that according to Philvocs, the dam is within the proximity of the San Manuel fault that had been dormant for many years now. What if it moves and the earth shakes, what is our assurance that such structure will not break,” said Fernandez.
Meanwhile, included as new members of the council were Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, George Chua Cham of the business sector and another from the women sector. (Leonardo Micua)
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