Tacloban City, Leyte — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources office in Eastern Visayas (DENR-8) is calling for public cooperation in the P205-million cadastral survey program now being conducted in the region.
DENR-8 Regional Director Leonardo Sibbaluca said the cadastral survey has resumed after it was delayed by super typhoon Yolanda which struck the region in November last year.
Sibbaluca said, “We enjoin the presence of concerned local government officials and lot claimants during the conduct of the survey in their respective towns and barangays so that they can point out the correct boundaries of their lots.”
The surveys include Category A – establishment of main and subsidiary controls, political boundary and lot surveys; Category B which is the same as Category A but limited to political boundary survey only; and Category C, or lot survey only.
Sibbaluca said the cadastral survey which is funded by a P3.56 billion budget is, aside from the P6.2-billion National Greening Program, one of DENR’s biggest funded projects.
In Eastern Visayas, he said, 13 towns are covered under Ccategory A survey, 29 in Category B, and two under Category C Survey. Some P205 million has been allotted for the cadastral surveys, started in 2012, of these 44 municipalities in Region VIII.
Sibbaluca explained that the cadastral survey is intended to determine the administrative boundary of a city or a municipality and its component barangays, and also includes the determination of administrative boundary of lots in alienable and disposable lands of the public domain for purposes of land titling. He also informed that these surveys are being conducted to support government projects, such as land titling, land use planning, taxation and the internal revenue allotment (IRA) program for different municipalities nationwide.
Currently, a Category A survey of Lope de Vega, Northern Samar, and General MacArthur, Eastern Samar have been completed by the survey contractor and approved by his office. His office has also approved category B surveys of Alang-alang, Dulag, and La Paz, in Leyte, Tagapul-an, and Sta. Rita in Samar, and Lavezares, Capul, and San Antonio in Northern Samar.
Contracts recently forged by his office are for six more survey contractors to conduct Category A survey in Sogod, Bontoc, and Silago towns in Southern Leyte, San Sebastian in Samar, and Pambujan in Northern Samar, and Category B Survey in Maslog, Eastern Samar. These eight municipalities are subject to cadastral survey in addition to the 44 municipalities which shall benefit from the cadastral survey program, he added. On the other hand, the cadastral surveys of Tacloban and Ormoc are yet to be contracted, he further added.
He told reporters that cadastral survey program started sometime in 1913 through the passage of RA 2259 or the Cadastral Act. However, the program was given inadequate support, hence only half of the country’s cities/ municipalities have been completely surveyed.
He said with the passage of Republic Act 7160 or the Local Government Code of 1991, cadastral surveys, lot surveys, and special surveys were devolved to the local government units (LGUs) but due to lack of manpower, financial resources, as well as technical capability of LGUs, not a single municipality was surveyed.
In August 2001, the DENR was mandated through department administrative order 2001-23 to execute, supervise, and manage the aforesaid types of surveys, he said. source: Manila Bulletin
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