Kalinga roadway owners told: Stop unsound property claims

By Peter Balocnit

TABUK CITY, Kalinga -- The Kalinga District Engineering Office of the Department of Public Works and Highways is hastening concreting of all secondary roads in the province.

This, as they appealed to stakeholders along road rights-of-way to cooperate and refrain from asking unreasonable property damage claims.

Engineer Teodoro Owek, construction chief of KDEO, said P153 million was earmarked this year for concrete pavement of secondary roads that include  the Pinukpuk-Balbalan national highway, Bulanao-Paracelis, Bulu-Malalao, and other secondary roads connecting Kalinga to other provinces.

He said KDEO is implementing projects  during summers to take advantage of good  weather.  

 “These are government projects and we all benefit from them so our appeal for concern communities and individuals is to give way for their implementation,”  Owek said.

Aside from road projects, the DPWH is also busy  constructing school buildings  which task was lodged to the agency last year.

Owek  said   P123M  was also allotted for the construction of classroom buildings in the province and all  of these projects are on-going.