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COTABATO CITY — The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education’s (MBHTE) Education Facilities Section (EFS) has broken ground in two separate ceremonies for the construction of two school facilities in the divisions of Special Geographic Area (SGA) and Maguindanao del Norte.
To be subsidized under the 2023 Transitional Development Impact Fund (TDIF), is a covered stage project, which will be constructed at Barangay Takepan, Pikit.
Additionally, another covered court funded under the 2020 Special Development Fund (SDF) will be also constructed at Ma’had Imamud Da’wah, Barangay Banubo, Sultan Kudarat.
MBHTE headed by Education Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal isbone of the 15 primary ministries of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
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 del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, as well as the Special Geographic Area’s (SGA) 63 barangays or villages that voted “Yes” in a plebiscite in February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction.
According to the Philippine Atlas BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities: Basilan, 11 municipalities; Lanao del Sur, 39; undivided 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. (✓)