By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff reporter
San
Nicolas, Ilocos Norte—Of the 50 Dept. of Public
Works and Highways’ engineering districts nationwide that were authorized to
approve detailed engineering design, as-staked and as-built plans, Ilocos
Norte’s DPWH 2nd Engineering District is the lone district in Region
I that has been granted.
DPWH Department Order No. 41
states that this is in line with the decentralization of the government in
order to provide for more effective and expeditious implementation of projects.
Based on the result of the
assessment conducted by the Bureau of Design on the design capability of the
DPWH field offices, the limits of the delegated authority of the district engineers
of the district offices to approve detailed engineering, as-staked and as-built
plans with respect to the locally-funded infrastructure projects within their
respective districts were increased to P50 million.
The district offices include
CAR with 4, NCR (1), Region I (1), Region II (3), Region III (12), Region IV-A
(1), Region IV-B (3), Region VI (1), Region VII (1), Region III (1), Region IX
(4), Region X (7), Region XI (8) and Region XII (3).
Reacting to this, DPWH 2nd
engineering district head Engr. Mathias Malenab announced that his district is
one of the 50 engineering districts nationwide who can avail of the said
department order.
Mr. Malenab said that due to
the hard work of all his personnel, specifically the planning and design
engineers, the DPWH 2nd engineering district office was the lone
district in Region I that was upgraded in terms of authority to approve
detailed engineering design, as-staked and as-built plans.
This means, Mr. Malenab explained,
that he can now approve plans up to P50 million worth of projects as compared
before where he can only approve plans up to P20 million and then bring plans
to the Regional Office.
With this development, Mr.
Malenab considers it a big help for the 2nd engineering district in
terms of projects and facilitating easier preparations for their implementation.
The evaluation was conducted
by Engineers from the Bureau of Designs with a set of criteria including plan
preparations, plan up keeping, plan designs and others.
Mr. Malenab said any type of
infra projects provided it does not exceed P50 million can be approved by him whether
the said project was already funded or still to be funded.
Effectivity of the order was
set last March 12 upon its release.
Meanwhile, the DPWH 2nd
Engineering Office conducted their first ever Lakbay Aral/Team Building held
April 30-May 2, 2015 and was approved by DPWH Undersecretary Romeo S.
Momo.
The district has a total 74
employees who went to Cagayan and Isabela district offices and the DPWH Region
II Office. A fellowship night and parlor games were also conducted with the
theme “To foster greater camaraderie and teamwork”.
Mr. Malenab thanked the
municipal mayors of San Nicolas, Banna and Nueva Era for lending their
respective coasters.
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