By HIROHITO D. CADION
PAGADIAN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur, Jan. 11 (PNA) -- The National Economic and Development
Authority (NEDA) will construct a P50 million building to house its regional
office in this city.
The edifice will be
built at the new site of Zamboanga Peninsula Regional Government Center in
Barangay Balintawak, this city, according to NEDA Regional Director Teresita
Socorro Ramos.
The groundbreaking
ceremony for the construction of the building will be held on Tuesday, January
14, with Gov. Antonio Cerilles and Mayor Romeo Pulmones as guests.
Other government
officials and partners involved in achieving regional development are also
expected to grace the groundbreaking ceremony.
NEDA is one of the
national government agencies that responded to the call to transfer the
regional offices from Zamboanga City to this city which was named as the new
regional center through Executive Order No. 429 issued sometime in 1990 by then
President Corazon Aquino.
The City of Zamboanga
City was named as the commercial and industrial center of the region.
In 2001, President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued E.O. 36 which reorganized and renamed Western
Mindanao to Zamboanga Peninsula.
Arroyo’s E.O. was
silent on the issue of regional government centers but in 2004, then Executive
Secretary Eduardo Ermita issued Memorandum Circular No. 75 ordering the
transfer of regional offices from Zamboanga City to this city citing E.O. 429.
The new site for
regional government center was named after the late President Aquino in honor
of her decision in making this city as the regional center of Zamboanga
Peninsula.
At present, the
Pagadian Regional Center Management Coordinating Office (PRCMCO) said about 65
percent of the regional offices have either fully or partially transferred and
“established presence” in this city.(PNA)
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