By Alfonso T. Ruda
DIPOLOG CITY – “The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program with Extension and Reform, popularly known as ‘CARPER LAW’ has ended but the Department of Agrarian (DAR) will continue its operation as lots has yet to be done to fulfill its responsibility to the Filipino people,” according to Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Mohammad Dassan Adju.
In a media briefing held here recently during the 5th CARPER anniversary, Adju also told the press that his office has been distributing land titles to agrarian reform beneficiaries involving government-owned lands.
He, however, admitted to having encountered some problems in the distribution of land titles involving privately owned lands.
Adju also apprised the local media of the implementation of the multi-million ARCP-II projects funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
PARPO I Rizzel Villanueva said that counter-parting scheme “has produced a positive impact in the project implementation, as it gives the local government unit (LGU) the sense of value for its equity, like what had been done by local leaderships of the province and Dipolog City.”
He cited the support extended by the provincial government of Zamboanga del Norte and the city government of Dipolog to the beneficiaries resulting in the successful implementaiton of DAR programs in the province.