NEDA holds groundbreaking for the construction of P50-M regional office edifice in Pagadian City

By Hirohito D. Cadion

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Jan. 14 (PNA) -– National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Deputy Director-General for Regional Development Office Margarita Songco led Tuesday the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a P50 million edifice to house the NEDA regional office in this city.

The three-storey edifice will be constructed at the Regional Government Center in Barangay Balintawak, this city, according to NEDA Regional Director Teresita Socorro Ramos.

The building, which will have complete facilities like training center, will be constructed by a private construction firm within 546 calendar days.

The groundbreaking ceremony was witnessed by local government officials headed by Mayor Romeo Pulmones and first district Rep. Victor Yu.

Pulmones lauded NEDA citing the construction of the regional office makes this city “to grow more as the new regional center of Zamboanga Peninsula.”

NEDA is the fourth national government agency that transferred the regional office from Zamboanga City after this city was named as the new regional center through Executive Order No. 429 issued in 1990 by then President Corazon Aquino.

The other three offices are the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the Office of Civil Defense (OCD). (PNA)
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