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Thursday, February 09, 2006
Pay takes up 69% of DepEd 7 budget
By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
The Department of Education (DepEd) 7 wants to operate on a P10.7-billion budget this year, with P7.38 billion going to the salaries and benefits of its personnel.
DepEd 7 Director Carolino Mordeno said P2.77 billion of the proposed budget will be for capital outlay, while P536 million will pay for maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE).
Outlay
Capital outlay covers the purchase of office equipment and fixtures, land and land improvements, as well as buildings and structural improvements.
MOOE covers office supplies, training and scholarships, utility costs, rental, transportation, auditing, consultancy, janitorial and security services.
Of the proposed budget for personnel services, P6.7 billion will cover the salaries and benefits of the region’s elementary and high school teachers.
DepEd 7 Budget Officer Floro Aclan said they are still waiting for the approval of the National Government budget, which includes their proposal.
He hopes, though, that they will not be operating on a reenacted budget like last year.
DepEd 7 operated on a P6.29-billion budget in 2005, with an additional P1.38 billion for the construction of school buildings.
The amount was P2.63 billion less than what DepEd 7 hoped the National Government would release to them.
Under the budget summaries proposed by the DepEd central office, DepEd 7 is expected to get P6.66 billion this year, which represents 7.11 percent of the whole department’s proposed budget of P112 billion.
The amount is 12.35 percent of the country’s budget for this year.
Books, desks
The P6.66 billion includes allocations for textbooks, desks, created positions and the agency’s programs like the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education, Secondary Education Improvement Project, Third Elementary Education Project and the School Building Program.
DepEd’s national budget, on the other hand, will cover among other projects the pre-school service contracting program, textbook procurement and computerization program.
According to DepEd’s budget proposal, the computerization program, which will ensure the provision of computers to all public schools, will cost P260 million.
It needs P1.8 billion this year to buy English textbooks, which are due for replacement, for all grade school and high school students.
As for the pre-school contracting program, which will cost the government P250 million, DepEd aims to organize 1,088 classes in fourth-to sixth-class municipalities without day care centers or private preschools.
It projects that 32,640 five-year-old children will benefit from this program.
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