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President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has confirmed her April 27 Bohol
visit to inaugurate at least three huge infrastructure
projects.
Gov.
Erico Aumentado had invited her to inaugurate the Bayongan
Dam in San Miguel town of the Bohol Irrigation Project
Stage 2 (BHIP 2), the Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement
Project Phase 2 (BCRIP 2), and the P60-million Jagna
Roll-on, Roll-off Port.
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Secretary
Marilou Frostrom of the Presidential Management Staff's Office
for regional concerns (PMS-ORC) last week inspected the dam,
BCRIP 2 as well as the Jagna port.
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Constructed
with corporate funds of the Philippine Ports Authority
(PPA), the over P60-million facility in Jagna that is
Bohol's gateway to Mindanao will give Boholanos and
visitors alike the comfort and ease of travel brought
about by upgraded and modern facilities.
Since
BCRIP 2 is divided into two contract packages, Aumentado
the other night called Frostrom asking to squeeze in
the unveiling of the BCRIP 2 marker at Kilometer Zero.
The
marker is in Plaza Rizal, specifically across the St.
Joseph's Cathedral, which stretch belongs to Package
1 of the project undertaken by Hanjin Heavy Industries
and Construction Co. It covers the section from Valencia
to Calape towns through Tagbilaran City.
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On
the other hand C. M. Pancho Construction undertook Package
2 from Valencia to Candijay town.
He
also asked Frostrom to include the P7-million Tagbilaran Welcome
Center - a tourist assistance center at the country's lone
tourism port.
While
the major activities will be at Bayongan Dam where project
managers Engr. Modesto Membreve of the National Irrigation
Administration (NIA) and Yung Qu Park of Hanjin-BHIP committed
to gather some 4,000 to 5,000 farmer-beneficiaries and residents,
unveiling the marker in Tagbilaran City will make the inaugural
activities "complete."
Initial
communications with PMS indicate that the President will take
a chopper, land in Bayongan direct from Cebu, have lunch in
Bayongan and proceed to Jagna, drive through some 1.5 kilometers
of BCRIP 2 from the Jagna port eastward going to the next
town of Duero and back to the Jagna gymnasium for the program.
With
Aumentado's request, she may take her chopper to Tagbilaran,
or else ride with the governor by land to Tagbilaran before
flying back to Cebu and back to Manila by plane.
The
multi-billion-peso BCRIP 2 is 136 kms. long. It involved the
construction of Portland Cement Concrete Pavement (PCCP),
repair of existing PCCP, construction of new and repair of
existing bridges, construction of reinforced concrete box
culverts (RCBC), reinforced concrete pipe culverts (RCPC),
slope and shore protection and other drainage structures.
On
the other hand, BHIP 2 will irrigate more ricelands in more
Bohol towns in the effort to make the province self sufficient
in the staple.
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