Singson revealed the President’s
decision in a recent House appropriations committee budget hearing.
He said aside from his agency’s
projects, Aquino has ordered him to supervise the infrastructure programs of
the Department of Education, Department of Agriculture and Department of
Agrarian Reform.
“The President envisions
convergence in these programs to achieve effectiveness and efficiency,” he
said.
He said the three agencies have
billions in funds for school buildings, farm-to-market roads, support
facilities for agrarian reform beneficiaries, and even bridges.
“It’s a huge task, but we have to
carry out our mandate from the President,” he stressed.
Aquino has praised Singson for
reducing corruption at the DPWH.
Apparently, this is what the
Chief Executive wants accomplished in the infrastructure projects of the three
other agencies.
Singson said the Department of
Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is not covered by the President’s
order because Secretary Mar Roxas has already streamlined the bidding and
implementation of DOTC projects like ports and airports to lessen, if not
eradicate, corruption.
In the same House hearing, the
DPWH chief said the government would build a total of 60,000 new classrooms to
wipe out the classroom gap during Aquino’s term.
“The administration will
undertake the massive school building program through the public-private
partnership (PPP) scheme,” he said.
He said contractor-investors
would advance the money, with the government paying for it over 10 years.
“They will be required to
maintain the classrooms so that when these are turned over to the government at
the end of the 10-year-period, they will still be in good shape,” he said.
To lessen cost, Singson suggested
that contractors resort to the modular system of construction.
He said concrete slabs needed for
the school buildings could be fabricated in one strategic area in a region and
then transported to communities where classrooms would be built.
He said he is asking local
government officials to cooperate with the DPWH and private contractors by
expediting the issuance of the necessary building and quarrying permits.
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