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COTABATO CITY — The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) held a groundbreaking ceremony last October 14, 2024, for the construction of two one-storey with two-classroom buildings at Kayaga Elementary School in Pandag and Tamar Elementary School in Brgy. Tamar, Talayan, Maguindanao del Sur.
These projects are funded under GAAB (General Appropriations Act of the Bangsamoro) 2024, with a total amount of Php10,163,179.73.
MBHTE is headed by Education Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal and is one of the 15 primary ministries of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
These new buildings are part of the ongoing efforts of the MBHTE to provide accessible education, ensuring that no Bangsamoro learner will be left behind.
In a related development, the BARMM education ministry conducted a turnover ceremony on October 10, 2024, for the completed one-storey with two-classroom school building at Timuay Tata-a Muba Elementary School at Brgy. Looy, South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur, at a cost Php4,570,972.83 and was funded under FY (Fiscal Year) 2021 SDF (Social Development Fund) Cluster III.
This new facility is aimed to provide acccess to quality education by providing an improved learning environment in the region.
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. (✓)