Senators say the NIR law grants the new region a P1.2-billion annual budget for the next three years, but the funds are nowhere in the proposed national budget
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Local officials said the proposal, submitted by Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman to Congress on July 29, left out the NIR. “Hopefully, they will be able to convince the national government to include the NIR budget now,” Lacson said. Marcos said one option is for legislators to reduce the proposed budgets for the Western Visayas and Central Visayas regions to allocate funds for the NIR., Negros Occidental was part of Western Visayas, while Negros Oriental and Siquijor were political territories under Central Visayas.
In an earlier interview, Senator Joseph Victor Ejercito said the NIR should receive a P1.2-billion share of the national budget annually for the next three years based on RA 12000.
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