Wednesday, June 17, 2009

IN A RACE FOR PGS!

NOT SO SIMPLE are the requisites for the schools to be awarded with the Pangulong GLORIA Scholarships (PGS) as this province is marked for massive corruption, but the Provincial Director of Tesda, PD Tarhata Mapandi has her own way of ensuring implementation.

IT WAS THE SECOND MONTH of the Summer training in the Cali Paramedical College (Cali) and the President, Dr. Camal Cali is getting the highest level of blood pressure for the year.

The cause of his grief is the delay of the students allowance from Tesda. Day after day, Dr. Cali is confronted by the scholars’ problem like the transportation expense in getting to school. The Scholars have signed a contract stating their scholarship is forfeited for absences.

But most distressful of all are the accusing fingers of the Scholars’ Parents casually spreading gossip that the Scholarship funds have been corrupted by the school.

What really happening was the funds is in the Tesda but it cannot be disbursed without completing mountainous papers to fill-up and signed and every document is authenticated. The Pangulong GLORIA Scholarships (PGS) required new process that is known to be foolproof and the Provincial Director is taking it seriously. Since the start of the first batch in late March Cali papers have been returned by Tesda for not having satisfied the reporting standard, not only twice but for the seventh-time.

A fly-by-night venture wishing luck in the PGS funds would not survive the Tesda scrutiny and this part of the ARMM known to be witty for corruption is having a graft-busting Tesda Executive that rules.

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