{"id":140402,"date":"2017-12-19T04:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T09:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=140402"},"modified":"2017-12-19T04:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T09:48:38","slug":"solon-says-2018-budget-brimming-with-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/19\/solon-says-2018-budget-brimming-with-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Solon says 2018 budget ‘brimming with hope’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: House Appropriations Committee Chair Karlo Nograles\u00a0 (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA —\u00a0<\/strong>Davao City Rep.\u00a0Karlo\u00a0Nograles, chairman of the House appropriations committee, on\u00a0Tuesday lauded President Rodrigo Duterte for signing\u00a0into law the PHP3.767-trillion national\u00a0budget\u00a0for 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement,\u00a0Nograles\u00a0said the approved General Appropriations\u00a0Act\u00a0(GAA) for 2018\u00a0provides hope\u00a0to Filipinos as the key provision of a tuition-free college education could\u00a0change the “lives of countless people.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that the approved national budget also offers “the promise of economic progress” through\u00a0ample funding for the administration’s massive infrastructure program dubbed as “Build, Build, Build”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“When we talk about providing hope to our people, no other national budget in the country’s history can match this GAA. It is brimming with hope as well as the promise of economic progress via Duterte’s “Build\u00a0Build\u00a0Build” program,”\u00a0Nograles\u00a0said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nograles\u00a0highlighted that the PHP40-billion allocation for the free college education program covers students from the country’s 114 state universities and colleges (SUCs), 16 local universities and colleges (LUCs), and 122 technical-vocational institutions (TVIs).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“By allocating P40 billion to cover for the tuition and miscellaneous fees of students in all State Universities and Colleges, young Filipinos will be armed with the most important tool in ensuring success in their lives – a college education,” he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He urged the Commission on Higher Education to launch an information drive about the\u00a0Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (Republic Act 10931).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“This will make sure that no college enrollee from even the far-flung barrios with dreams of obtaining a college diploma would be left behind,”\u00a0Nograles\u00a0said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Things have changed, and it’s certainly looking up for the Philippines in 2018.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nograles\u00a0said other salient features of the GAA lined up for the education sector, include\u00a0the increase in cash allowance for public school teachers from PHP2,500 to PHP3,500 with an allocation of PHP770 million, as well as\u00a0the increase of PHP10 million each for all SUCs for capital outlays.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nograles\u00a0also said there is funding allotted for the purchase of body cameras for Philippine National Police (PNP) members amounting to PHP334 million\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the supposed PHP900 million budget for OPLAN Double Barrel was realigned for the housing of members of the PNP and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nograles\u00a0said the base pay hike for cops and soldiers, which was recently approved on final reading by the House, has a budget allocation of PHP63 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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