Socio-economic plan OK’d for Pangasinan
TRANSITION TO NEW NORMAL
THE Provincial Development Council (PDC) approved last June 30 the province’s Annual Investment Program for 2021 that outlines the socio-economic recovery plan of Pangasinan when it transitions to “New Normal” from its present Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) status.
Titled “Abig”, Pangasinan Recovery Plan for the Year 2012, the socio-economic recovery plan lists programs and projects on health, employment, social welfare, livelihood, agriculture, disaster, tourism, and other development thrusts of the provincial government.
“Abig”, the Pangasinan word for betterment or welfare, addresses the socio-economic challenges of Pangasinan posed by COVID-19 pandemic that quarantined Pangasinan families inside their homes for more than four months.
Gov. Amado Espino III, PDC chairman, told mayors and department heads in attendance of the need to maximize the resources and strengths of the province for the early recovery of its lost social and economic gains.
He stressed the need to support and encourage the growth of small-scale businesses by providing them windows of opportunities so that they can create jobs and employ more people who will earn incomes for their families.
The “Abig” Pangasinan Recovery Plan cites and projects to enhance health care systems, increase agricultural productivity, provide livelihood assistance, promote manpower development, and employment, protection of environment, protection and disaster risk reduction and management, development of infra, efficient social welfare service, promote tourism, and to continue housing and resettlement projects, scholarship programs, peace and order, sports activities, human resource development, and financial management.
Espino said these concerns address the needs of towns and cities.
Espino directed the 47 city and municipal mayors to create technical working groups to monitor and oversee the implementation of their own recovery programs.
The meeting also approved the supplemental budget from the Department of Energy for public health workers. (Leonardo Micua)
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