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Monday, January 11, 2010

DTI-8 freezes tour plan due to coming elections

TACLOBAN CITY – The plan to send the regional winners of the Best One Town One Product (OTOP) performers and at least 26 municipal mayors in Eastern Visayas for a tour in Japan has been temporarily suspended, a DTI 8 official said.


This, according to Bimbo Tan, regional OTOP coordinator, is to avoid doubts relating to politics and criticisms of the media especially that the plan coincides with the election time.


“We had set aside the plan of sending the OTOP winners and mayors to Japan for an educational tour because it might create an issue on politics,” Tan informed.


The idea to send the regional OTOP winners and 26 municipal chief executives was conceived in September this year during the Eastern Visayas OTOP Congress and Financing Forum in this city.


Tan said that if the plan will be pursued, the project proposal will then be sent to the Congress under the Micro-Enterprises and Development Committee, which is chaired by Leyte First District Cong. FM Romualdez.


The DTI official pointed out that it was Presidential Assistant for Eastern Visayas Cynthia Nierras who told him that the plan is not properly calendared.


“Ma’am Nierras told me na mali ang timing namin. Just imagine that we will be endorsing 26 municipal heads from different local government units, so we might be criticized kasi malapit na ang election,” Tan stressed.


However, Tan said that this does not mean that the plan will not be realized anymore.


“We will send them after the election period and we will see to it that everything is properly settled,” he declared.


The purpose of the tour is to let the regional winners and local government officials experience and understand how OTOP works in Japan where it originally started and what makes their program successful.


The regional winners during the OTOP Congress were the local government of Guiuan, Eastern Samar that was named as the Best LGU OTOP Implementer, Lola Concordia Agri Processing, Inc. of Bato, Leyte as the Best OTOP Small Medium Enterprise (SME), and the DOST Samar Provincial Office as the Best OTOP supportive agency.


The One Town One Product is primarily a Philippine adaptation of Japan’s successful One Village One Product (OVOP) project to maximize the total participation of the people in the regional development of their country. (ALVIN P. CARDINES)





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