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Official Publication of the Philippine Information Agency Bicol Regional Office, in cooperation with the RIAC-REDIRAS - RDC Bicol



Thursday, January 22, 2015

DENR Camarines Sur PENRO cites significant milestones

By: Ana-Liza S. Macatangay

NAGA CITY, Jan. 22 (PIA) --- Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer (PENRO) Atty. Arnel P. Rodriguez will be leaving the jurisdiction of manning the Camarines Sur resources to his new successor together with the significant accomplishments he has propagated during his almost 2 years of tenure as the Department’s Officer in Charge in the province of Camarines Sur.

Rodriguez will return at the DENR Regional Office in Legazpi and will assume his new post as Assistant Regional Director for Management Service pursuant to a Special Order (SO) issued by DENR USEC Demetrio Ignacio. Before serving as CamSur OIC-PENRO, he was assigned as the Head of DENR’s Legal Department in the Region.

During the FORUM@PIA spearheaded by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) - Camarines Sur Provincial Office Wednesday, Rodriguez cited his numerous achievements. One of those was giving the department’s employees their benefits, particularly empowering them by strengthening the Collective Negotiations Agreement Incentives.

He also spoke about the issues of rotting charcoals and logs that were then left putrid at the DENR’s yard.  This, under his term was turned into useful chairs through the partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Provincial Government of Camarines Sur under the project dubbed “Project Silya.”

“ During my tenure, we instituted a mechanism – because of the huge volume of transactions or activities in Camarines Sur, I instituted the “No-Contact Policy” – meaning, if one has to transact, there is no need to talk to the person taking action on your paper. One has to go to the Public Assistance Desk Officer and just wait at the lobby while the papers are being processed,” Rodriguez added.

Under Rodriguez’ jurisdiction as OIC-PENRO were the protected areas in Camarines Sur like the Caramoan National Park at Paniman, Caramoan; Mount Isarog Natural Park (MINP) located in Carolina, Naga City; Libmanan Cave Natural Park (LCNP) in Sigamot, Libmanan, Camarines Sur, Bicol Natural Park (BNP-Cam Sur side) in Napolidan, Lupi and the Lagonoy Natural Biotic Area located in Agosais, Lagonoy in Camarines Sur.

 The four Community Environment and Natural Resources Offices (CENROs) in Sipocot, Goa and in the cities of Iriga and Naga were also given directives to particularly ensure the materialization of government’s environment initiatives like the National Greening Program (NGP).  Rodriguez said that in 2014, they were able to utilize 4,925 hectares of lot and planted it with 2,581,380 seedlings.

For the year 2015, PENRO is targeting 1,292,200 seedlings to be planted in a 3, 178 hectares expanse of land.  Under the Grassroot Participatory Budgeting (GPB), they are also looking into 170, 650 seedlings to be planted in a 714 hectares of available soil this year.

For year 2014, under their Land Disposition program, they were able to process and issue patents to 2,121 agricultural lands equivalent to 2381.8066 hectares and 1,432 residential lots.  The biggest number of processed documents was at CENRO Goa with 960 agricultural lands (1,344 has) and 330 residential lots.   In 2015, the challenge is to process 898 agricultural and 1,475 residential lands.

In as far as revenue generation is concerned Rodriguez thankfully noted that they were able to come up with an 847,345.71 collection and will hit a 580,000.00 for 2015.

For his concluding message, Rodriguez thanked the members of the tri-media for being their partner in information dissemination for the past years.  (LSMacatangay, PIAV/Camarines Sur)

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