Lingayen set to adopt ordinance on scholarship
LINGAYEN—To underscore the importance of education among its constituents, the Sangguniang Bayan of the town is set to establish a permanent and regular scholarship program through an ordinance.
To be known as “Lingayen Scholarship Program” or the “Iskolar Ako ng Bayan,” proposed Ordinance 52-2015 aims “to provide a better chance and opportunity to poor but deserving students to study and see their way through state-owned colleges and universities or even in private schools in the locality and neighboring towns offering technical, vocational, or college degree courses but whose tuition fees are marginal and not far beyond from what the state-owned colleges and universities are charging.”
Ordinance author, Councilor Jaymark Crisostomo, said the significance of the program lies in its being focused on helping under-privileged but deserving students to have access to education.
The proposed ordinance which seeks to cover tuition, laboratory, matriculation and scholars’ expenses for transportation, seeks to allocate P1 million automatically every year beginning 2016.
A Governing Board will be responsible in the implementation of the ordinance. It will be chaired by the Mayor, with the Vice Mayor as vice-chairman, and the principals of all high schools located in Lingayen as members.
Crisostomo, confident of the ordinance’s passage, said the scholars’ activities will be monitored even after college.
Meanwhile, last August 24, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) began discussion on Provincial Ordinance No. 29-2015 “an ordinance institutionalizing the provincial scholarship program of the province of Pangasinan and appropriating funds therefore.” (Johanne Macob)
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