Miagao, Guimbal top 2006 Clean and Green
Miagao Municipal Hall
The municipalities of Miagao and Guimal topped the 2006 Project Cleaning and Greening in Category A (1st to 3rd class municipalities) and Category B (4th and 6th class municipalities), respectively.
Each winner will take home P50,000 each for the cash prize and trophies during the awarding ceremonies which also coincide with the celebration of Kaadlawan sang Iloilo slated in April 2007.
Miagao town garnered an average score of 99.91% while Guimbal got the rating of 99.90%. Other winners in the municipal level, Category A are: San Joaquin with 99.66%, Janiuay with 99.53%, Lambunao with 99.49% and Sta. Barbara with 99.43% while in Category B, winners are: New Lucena, with 99.78%; Alimodian, 99.72%; Tubungan, 99.67%; and Maasin, 99.54%.
In the barangay level, for the third time around, Brgy. Cabugao in the Municipality of Lambunao retained its crown as the Cleanest and Greenest Barangay in the Province with 99.86% rating. Brgy. Nueva Invencion, Barotac Viejo placed second with 99.80%; Igcadios, Leon capped third place with 99.70%, Siwaragan, San Joaquin placed fourth with 99.55% and Pandan, Dingle came fifth with 99.51%.
The top three placers will bring home P50,000, P35,000 and P20,000, respectively, in each category.
For Inland Bodies of Water, Jalaur River landed on the 1st place with 99.74% and followed by Jaro River, 99.60%; Suage River, 99.00%; Barotac River, 98.67% and Sibalom River, 98.62.
The evaluators, composed of representatives from the Department of Education, Provincial Health Office, Provincial Planning and Development Office, Provincial Agricultures, Information and Environment and Natural Resources Offices, conducted two separate evaluations to determine winners for this year's search for the cleanest and greenest municipality and barangay in the Province of Iloilo.
Criteria for the 2006 search include Physical Conditions -- 75% which covers absence of eyesores; well-maintained facilities; presence of healthful and environment-friendly practices; Urban Space Greening -- 25% and Support System with 25% which include equipment and manpower, functional structure, budgetary requirements, and community mobilization and civil society's participation in environmental protection and management.
Marylou B. Sumbing, Information Officer III and 2006 Project Cleaning and Greening lauded all 42 municipalities and the participating barangays for their overwhelming show of support to the project. In the three years of its implementation, this project has shown positive results through the involvement of the different sectors in the community.
The aim of the project, which is the sustainability of cleanliness and greening of our countrysides by our people, has been positively achieved. The adoption of environmental-friendly practices such as the proper disposal of solid wastes has been implemented in accordance to Republic Act 9003 otherwise known as the Solid Waste Management Act.
It can be recalled that this project has propelled the province to achieve national recognition in the Gawad Pangulo Sa Kapaligiran wherein it has achieved the top rank in the Region for four consecutive years and 2nd runner-up in the national level for two consecutive years.
Iloilo Governor Niel D. Tupas also thanked the local chief executives of the 42 municipalities and the barangay officials for their untiring support extended in the said project.
"The Province of Iloilo is one of the four contenders for the Gawad Pangulo sa Kapaligiran for the Cleanest and Greenest and this feat was achieved only through the cooperation of every Ilonggo and we are showing the whole country that a disciplined people embracing the concept of clean and green can accomplish much in anything that we set to do," Tupas reiterated.
First Lady Myrna Causing-Tupas is the Chairperson of the Task Force Cleaning and Greening Project of the Province of Iloilo.
(Capitol News)