Two governors in Eastern Visayas welcomed the announcement of President Marcos to provide special funds for poverty-stricken localities in the country. /PDI
Evardone added: “I believe that this additional fund will enable poor LGUs to accelerate their development and ensure that we can deliver more essential social services to our people.”
Eastern Samar, which has a national tax allocation of P1.77 billion, has a poverty incidence of 29.4 percent based on the 2021 poverty incidence report of the Philippine Statistics Authority .Based on the 2020 census, Eastern Samar has a population of 477,168 people,“As governor of Northern Samar, we thank President Marcos for expressing his intent to support less developed LGUs in the country through additional funding,” he said in a statement.
While it gets a total income of P2.4 billion, P2.1 billion of which is sourced from its national tax allocation share, Northern Samar continues to grapple with poverty.“With our limited resources, any additional fund will greatly help finance our development programs in the province as we try to keep our economic growth going,” Ongchuan said.
Marcos, in his speech during the general assembly of the League of Provinces of the Philippines held at Clark, Pampanga on Friday, May 19, vowed to put up a special funding for poor local governments in the country, particularly those classified under third to sixth classes.
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