By
RedjieCawis
BAGUIO CITY – The Regional Development
Council has started what it called renewed thrust for regional autonomy with around
a hundred government regional line agency heads, executives and senior
officials of offices recently briefed on the matter here at Teachers Camp.
Organized by the
Cordillera Association of Regional Executives together with the Regional
Development Council-Cordillera, the forum on regional autonomy for Cordillera
executives was aimed at re-orienting different government line agency and
organization heads and other senior officials on the region’s quest
for autonomy.
CARE president,
regional director John Castaneda of Department of Interior and Local
Government, said the forum updated agency heads on initiatives undertaken by
the RDC and other groups particularly in information, education and
communication campaign on Cordillera autonomy.
He added conducting a
forum for CAR executives and senior officers will provide them the opportunity
to be appraised anew on regional autonomy as they review the provisions of the former House Bill 5595,
which is the draft organic act.
The role of regional
line agencies and other government organizations in an autonomous set up is
very important and it is important they understand the autonomous set up of
government.
He said one objective
was the CARE and RDC would solicit support from the government executives for
implementation of programs to make Cordillera an autonomous region.
Castaneda added the
forum was one of the pre-summit activities being conducted regionwide in
preparation for regional summit on autonomy next year.
He said different
outputs to be gathered in the scheduled activities of the pre-regional summit
will be used as inputs for the bigger regional summit and become reference so recommendations for the proposed
new house bill on autonomy would be made.
During the forum, RDC
private sector Representative Dr. Virgilio Bautista discussed possible benefits
of an autonomous region,adding the RDC is pushing for the autonomy to hasten
development in Cordillera provinces.
Lawyer Delmar Carino
discussed the salient features of House Bill 5595 or the Autonomy Organic Act
while Mayor Mauricio Domogan talked on history and principles of the Cordillera
regional autonomy.
Forum participants raised issues and concerns on the former autonomy organic act and issued recommendations or amendments to the bill during workshops
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