BAGUIO CITY — The Baguio City District Engineering Office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) based here already completed at least 10 different infrastructure projects worth nearly P20 million to continuously enhance the development of this city to cope up with the increasing population and the growing economy.

One of the completed projects with the biggest funding worth P5 million was the farm-to-market road in Barangay Sto. Tomas Apugan which was funded by the Department of Agriculture (DA) through the initiative of Rep. Mauricio G. Domogan and another P2 million farm-to-market road project in Barangay Lucnab funded from the same agency.

At the same time, Domogan and officials of two government line agencies also inaugurated the improved and concreted road in Barangay Pinget which had a budget of P3 million and another P2 million worth of paving project in the villages of Lower and Upper Dagsian.

Furthermore, Ireneo Gallato, Baguio City district engineer, added that a P2 million road opening and concreting project was also completed to place an end to the long overdue clamor of villagers for better access roads to the main road in the city.

On the other hand, a P1.5 million sewerage improvement project in Barangay Brookspoint; construction and repair and replacement of a school building in Lucban Elementary School worth P600,000; construction of drainage canal in Barangay Upper Irisan worth P1 million; rehabilitation of drainage canal in Quirino Hill worth P500,000 among other small projects.

Domogan cited the cooperation between village officials and their constituents, including the relentless efforts of the contractors and the project implementers, to ensure the completion of the projects on time even if the development projects were recently affected by the onslaught of typhoon “Pepeng.”

According to Domogan, the projects were implemented above board considering the contractors and project engineers have ensured that the different infrastructure works have passed government standards, thus, they were certified as fit for public use.

Gallato disclosed the local DPWH office is currently rushing the completion of pending projects as well as bidding out remaining funded projects within their jurisdiction so that project implementers could already start their works prior to the enforcement of the election ban to pave the way for the conduct of the May 2010 automated elections.

Despite being a highly urbanized city, Domogan explained there are still numerous projects in the 128 villages which should be given proper attention by the concerned government agencies so that people living in the villages will enjoy the fruits of development.