DILG confers P1M Performance Challenge Fund to Zambales town

DILG confers P1M Performance Challenge Fund to Zambales town

By: Carlo Lorenzo J. Datu

 

IBA, Zambales -- Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) recently conferred Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) check, amounting to P1 million, to the town of Palauig.

 

“The PCF is bestowed to local government units who earlier bagged the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH),” DILG Regional Director Florida Dijan explained.

 

SGH is conferred to those who have excelled in the areas of planning, budgeting, revenue mobilization, financial management, and budget execution, procurement and resource mobilization.

 

Also, LGU recipients of the said merit have obtained a “no adverse report” from the Commission on Audit, which means that they have complied with all the requirements of the government’s auditing agency.

 

Dijan added that the PCF, amounting to P7 million for provincial, P3 million for city and P1 million for municipal grantees; will be utilized for projects supportive to the attainment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals such as eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, reduce child mortality and promote gender equality.

 

The municipality will use the fund for the concreting of Sto. Niño – Tuktok Pangol Road. (CLJD-PIA 3)