Batac among PH’s most improved LGUs

By Dominic B. dela Cruz

Staff reporter

Batac City—Mayor Albert D. Chua announced that the city government here was recently adjudged as Rank #8 for the Most Improved Local Government Unit (LGU) nationwide under the component cities category for CY 2018.

The award was spearheaded by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) for the 2018 cities and municipalities competitiveness index.

Prior to the national level search, Batac was pronounced as Rank #1 as Most Improved LGU in Region I; 2^nd Place Infrastructure Pillar in Region I and 2^nd Place Resiliency Pillar in Region I all in 2018.

Mr. Chua said that of all the component cities in Region I and the country as a whole, Batac shone in terms of improvement.

Records show, according to Mr. Chua, that Batac improved vastly compared with other LGUs in the past years.

He said the award was based on how the city government “successfully and properly implemented the different programs and activities like infrastructure, resiliency, financial aspect, tourism, good governance, environment and others”.

Likewise, the city government of Batac was again given the Seal of Good Housekeeping set by the DILG.

This is in relation to how LGU operates with their programs and activities, better services bringing them closer to the people, financial transparency and others.

Relative to this, Mr. Chua thanked all the people behind these recognitions for the city.

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