Basilan new buildings for senior high school completed - Engr. Soler Undug

Lamitan,  Basilan   – Most of the 167 new buildings for senior high school in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are almost finished and used already by thousands of students of the whole region.

At least seven of the nine new school buildings with six classrooms  in Basilan has already turned over to Department of Education earlier.

 The total amount of the nine new school building is estimated to be at least P70 million  pesos said Engineer Soler Undug, District Engineer of Basilan.

Among the high schools  buildings located in Lamitan City and in the municipalities of Maluso, Tuburan, Muhtamad, Tipo-tipo, Sumisip and Lantawan.

Accordingly, the construction of this  new school buildings is in response to the province’s more than a thousand senior high school students expected to enroll this coming school year.

For the entire ARMM, the regional government has allocated a little over P1 billion that would cover 167 new school buildings with 816 classrooms. The bulk of the new school buildings for senior high school would be in the provinces of Maguindanao, with 75, and in Lanao del Sur, with 51. The rest, or 41 new buildings, would be spread in the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.

The regional government is also building 12-classroom agri-fishery school in Basilan for high school and college students. (Source BPI)