Department of Agrarian Reform turned over about P5 million worth of infrastructures to Brgy. General Malvar in Pontevedra town, Negros Occidental, yesterday.

Lucresia Taberna, Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Reform Officer for Southern Negros Occidental, said one of the projects is the construction of the two-classroom building with comfort rooms that costs P1.5 million and is expected to benefit 189 students.

Aside from the classrooms, DAR also constructed 450-square meter multi-purpose pavement networks  in Puroks 1 and 5, that  will be used to dry rice grains, at  a total cost of P1 million, she said.

DAR also built an agricultural warehouse worth P1 million and concreted the 0.345 kilometer road from the main highway to Purok 1 at a cost of  P2.2 million, Taberna added.

The classrooms, multi-purpose pavements and the warehouse and the concreting of the road which is expected to benefit 249 agrarian reform beneficiaries of Brgy. General Malvar are part of the Agrarian Reform Communities Project II.

ARCP II hitch is a foreign-assisted undertaking aimed at fostering rural development.

Danilo Pongan, ARCP II Regional Point Person, said 40 percent of the total costs of these projects were provided by DAR through the Development Bank of the Philippines, while 35 percent came from the Pontevedra administration while  the rest   from the national government.

At the turnover were Pontevedra Mayor Jose Benito Alonso, General Malvar Elementary School Principal Sally Gibraltar, engineer Lodovico Guimapang of the DAR provincial project office and Brgy. General Malvar Captain Romeo Laos.*APN

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