SCARBIDC Breaks Ground For Road Projects

The bustling agrarian reform community of Sta. Clara Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative (SCARBIDC) set into action as it broke ground to commence two road sub-projects under the second phase of the Agrarian Reform Communities Projects (ARCP2). These projects are concreting of a two-kilometer road inside the industrial and residential camp and rehabilitation/improvement of an eight-kilometer plantation road from the camp to the southern border of Bohenange. Project costs stand at PhP 12,119,431.57 for the two-kilometer concreting work and PhP 19,038,414,09 for the eight-kilometer stretch. Lamitan City government are still in the course of fulfilling requirements for the initial download of project fund pegged at thirty percent. The fund will be released directly to the city local government unit.

 Equity sharing at 50-50 for ARCP2 and the city local government of Lamitan is still subject for approval at the National Sub-Project Approval Committee (NSAC) level in the National Projects Coordination Office (NPCO) in DAR-Central Office in Manila. The city government will be considering about sourcing out some of the manpower from Sta. Clara.

 In related development, ARCP2 saw through a completed four– kilometer concreting of an agrarian reform community (ARC) road network in Tipo-tipo Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Agricultural Development Cooperative (TARBADECO) in Tipo-tipo town. Other on-going sub-projects are rehabilitation of 9.98 kilometers of ARC road in Tumahubong Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative (TARBIDC) in Sumisip and four-kilometer farm-to-market road in Tipo-tipo Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperative (TIPARBECO), in Ungkaya Pukan with an accomplishment status of 51.15% and 86.46% respectively.

Sub-projects in the pipeline include concreting of farm-to-market roads in construction of a level 2 water supply system, and construction of a multi-purpose building in Lantawan, Maluso, and Sumisip whose ARCs are recipients of the Project.