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Monday, April 22, 2013

2013 cadastral survey project for 11 ZamPen towns to start soon

By Claro A. Lanipa

PAGADIAN CITY – The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-IX on Tuesday held the opening of bids for the 2013 Cadastral Survey Project for the 11 municipalities in Zamboanga Peninsula region.
Regional Executive Director Arleigh J. Adorable said the eleven towns have been alloted P32,700,000 million covering  an estimated land area of 218,359 hectares in 239 barangays.

“This project was supposed to be implemented last year, but incidentally there were some technicalities occurred during the bidding process,” Adorable added.

He further said that as per instruction of DENR Secretary Ramon J. P. Paje, DENR-IX would only have until November this year to accomplish all its targets including the cadastral survey.

The cadastral survey will be implemented in the municipalities of Godod, Gutalac, Salug and Baliguian all of Zamboanga del Norte; Lapuyan, Lakewood, Dimataling and Labangan in Zamboanga del Sur and the towns of Naga, Olutanga and Mabuhay in Zamboanga Sibugay province.

The opening of bids was presided by its chairman Regional Technical Director Moises Butic and the members of the Technical Working Group (TWG) with representatives from the DENR Central Office, the local media including PIA that acted as observers during the process. (PIA9)