NAGA City, Philippines-Camarines Sur Governor Luis Raymund Villafuerte Partido Development Administration (PDA) is called a "failure," claimed that seven of 10 cities under the jurisdiction of the highest number of poor households in the province.
"Seventeen years after it was created by law, a PDA, which was tasked with expediting the development of 10 cities in the province of Camarines Sur, has failed to fulfil its mandate and there's not much to show, except for debts in excess of one billion pesos, as well as the loss of nearly half a billion pesos over the past six years, from 2004 to 2008," the Governor said in a statement.
Villafuerte was quoted recent data from the Ministry of social welfare and development of National Housing targeting system (NHTS) for poverty reduction that pegged the percentage identified poor households in the cities of Siruma at 76.08%; Garchitorena, 79.90 per cent; Tinambac, 71.71 per cent; Caramoan, 69.44%; Sañgay, 67.14%; Goa, 66.14 per cent; and the Lagonoy, 64.78%.
But according to Villafuerte's rivals, Arnulfo Fuentebella PDA representative, has been praised as a model for district development planning and it be replicated in other Congressional districts.
He added that the PDA has been recognized by the Congressional planning and budget Department (CPBD) has the best planning district, and was presented to the Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile in 2009 as a model for strengthening CPBD.