NorCot alliance towns continue sharing facilities

PIGCAWAYAN, North Cotabato --- Seven towns of this province continually strengthen their alliance and intensify their "bayanihan" spirit through implementation of infrastructures in underdeveloped areas.

Mayor Eliso Garcesa, Jr. said Kabalikat PALMA+PB --- which stands for the initial letters of the towns of Pigcawayan, Aleosan, Libungan, Midsayap, and Alamada plus Pikit and Banisilan --- has pulled its resources and equipment to complement the needs of each member-municipality.

“It is already a practice that heavy equipment and construction facilities of alliance-member towns would lend each other’s equipment should the need arises,” Mayor Garcesa said.

He said these include dump trucks, road roller, road grader, backhoe, bulldozer, self-loading, and pay loader.

“We usually help each other for the road rehabilitation and maintenance,” he said.

The Kabalikat PALMA+PB has been moving from one municipality of the district to another for years now doing repair works on roads, rehabilitation of bridges, road concreting, and construction of farm-to-market roads, among others. (Gilmhar A. Lao with Anne Acosta)