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COTABATO CITY — The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education’s (MBHTE) under the leadership of Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal turned over on October 10, 2024, the completed one-storey with two-classroom school building at Pimbalakan Elementary School (PES) in Barangay Pimbalakan, Mamasapano, Maguindanao del Sur, built at a cost of Php4,549,253.07.
It was funded under the Social Development Fund (SDF) of 2021.
This new school building reflects the MBHTE’s commitment to ensuring that every Bangsamoro learner has access to quality education, living up to its mission of leaving no Bangsamoro learner behind.
MBHTE is one of the primary ministries of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), which abolished and replaced in January 2019 the 20 years old Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
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, 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. With the recent plebiscite at SGA, the BARMM now has eight new municipalities as residents voted “Yes”.
According to the Philippine Atlas BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities (plus eight newly established under the SGA: 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. (✓)