Kalinga to deal with road way problems

By Peter A. Balocnit

TABUK CITY, Kalinga -- The provincial government has formed a committee to deal on road right-of-way (RROW) problems now causing delay on road improvement projects. 

Gov. Jocel Baac, told a media forum an executive order will be issued to form the committee composed of the Department of Public Works and Highways, Provincial Engineering Office, National Irrigation Administration, Provincial Legal office, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Interior and Local Government, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Land Transportation Office, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, Provincial Assessor’s Office, Tabuk city local government unit, and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples. 

Natividad Sugguiyao, provincial NCIP officer, was named chairman of the committee tasked to act with dispatch on RROW problems so that development could be smoothly carried including routes of drainage canals in Bulanao area and Avocado creek in Dagupan, both of this city. 

He urged committee members to dialogue with RROW encroachers and to recommend solutions. 

The creation of the RROW committee was prompted by the delayed construction of a six-lane road in Bulanao when RROW encroachers secured a temporary restraining order from the court allegedly on the environment effects of the project. – PIA, Kalinga