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COTABATO CITY — The Ministry of Basic, Higher, and Technical Education (MBHTE), through its Education Facilities Section (EFS), turned over Friday, December 9, a 2-storey with 10 classrooms school building worth Php21,383,985.71 to Broce Central Elementary School, Maguindanao II Division.
Subsidized under the 2020 Special Development Fund (SDF), the project is an MBHTE Flagship school building that has been constructed in support to one of the 12-Point Priority Agenda of the Ministry which is to promote schools as safe places for learning.
MBHTE Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal emphasized that the Ministry has lined-up several programs and projects that aim to address the gaps in educational facilities and infrastructures.
Minister Iqbal also added that to succeed in any undertaking, diligent work must be coupled with good intentions at all times.
In his State-of-Education-Address (SOEA) delivered during the First BARMM Education Summit last December 5 in Davao City, Iqbal was proud to say that the Education Ministry has accomplished almost 70% of its infrastructure projects across the 11 schools division offices (SDO). BARMM stands for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
The Bangsamoro region, established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), is made up of the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, as well as the 63 SGA villages that voted “yes” in a plebiscite in January and February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction.
Its population per the Philippine Atlas has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities: Basilan, 11 municipalities; Lanao del Sur, 39; Maguindanao, 36; Sulu, 19; and Tawi-Tawi, 11. Its component cities are Cotabato (the regional center and capital) in Maguindanao; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur.
Iqbal said in the coming years, the MBHTE is planning to intensify both curriculum and infrastructure projects and programs for its four directorates – Basic, Madaris, Higher, and Technical Education. (/)