The Marcos administration desires extra fund for its disposal throughout calamities because it asks Congress for a P31 billion calamity fund in 2024.
Also often called the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (NDRRMF), the calamity fund proposal is greater by 51.2% than the present P20.5-billion appropriation.
The P31 billion will cowl the P17.9 billion appropriated for “aid, relief and rehabilitation services to communities/areas affected by calamities, including training of personnel, and other pre-disaster activities.”
The determine is up from the P12.3 billion allocation in 2023.
Also included is the P13.05 billion, from the present P7.1 billion, for “repair and reconstruction of permanent structures, including capital expenditures for pre-disaster operations, rehabilitation and other related activities.”
The NDRRMF proposal now not included a line merchandise for the Marawi Siege Victims Compensation Fund, which has a P1 billion allocation for 2023.
Republic Act 11696 or the Marawi Siege Victims Compensation Act signed into regulation in April 2022 created the Marawi Compensation Board. The board is listed individually beneath “Other Executive Offices” and has a proposed price range of P1,117,555,000 for 2024.
The proposed calamity fund additionally contained a P7.425 billion Quick Response Fund (QRF) for the next companies:
- Department of Agriculture (P1 billion, identical as in 2023)
- Department of Education (P3 billion, up from P2 billion in 2023)
- Department of Health (P500 million, identical as in 2023)
- Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-Bureau of Fire Protection (P50 million, identical as in 2023)
- DILG-Philippine National Police (P50 million, identical as in 2023)
- Department of National Defense-Office of Civil Defense (P500 million, identical as in 2023)
- Department of Public Works and Highways (P1 billion, down from P11 billion in 2023)
- Department of Social Welfare and Development (P1.25 billion, down from P1.75 billion in 2023)
- Department of Transportation-Philippine Coast Guard (P75 million)
—LDF, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
