P137-M Chico works checked; irrigation project turned over

Contractors ordered: Hasten work 

CITY OF TABUK, Kalinga – Top provincial officials monitored improvement of the P137 Upper Chico River Irrigation System (UCRIS) dam project ordering contractors to complete the project ahead of schedule.

This, as the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) recently turned-over the Laya West Communal Irrigation Project – Phase I to the Jose Anniban Farmers Irrigators Association.

The association with 53 farmers who are agrarian reform beneficiaries will now operate and maintain the project located at Laya West, this city.

Kalinga Irrigation Management Office (KIMO) division manager engineer Ronilio Cervantes said the Laya West CIP - Phase I is an inter- agency project funded under Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program- Irrigation Component (CARP- IC) CY 2019 with project cost of P10,000,000.   

The project was designed to irrigate an irrigable area of 54 hectares.

 The turn-over was witnessed by Rep. Allen Jesse C. Mangaoang, Gov. Ferdinand B. Tubban,  NIA-Cordillera Manager Engr. Benito T. Espique, Jr.; NIA Consultant Ret. Col. Herman P. Asanyas, Jr.; NIA- KIMO employees,   provincial Agrarian Reform officer Edaňo G. Canao,  DAR Kalinga, Presidential Agrarian Reform Council Committee headed by Francisco Alunday and farmer- beneficiaries.

In a related development, Espique led other officials in a monitoring improvement of main canal of the Upper Chico River Irrigation System (UCRIS).

The NIA-KIMO is committed to closely monitor the on-going P137 million UCRIS rehabilitation with contractors directed to complete the project ahead of schedule. (JDP/PAB-PIA CAR, Kalinga)