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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 941 -
ESTABLISHING NEW GUIDELINES FOR THE RURAL SERVICE PROGRAM
("PAGLILINGKOD: BAGONG LIPUNAN") |
The Presidential Executive Assistant
The Minister of Local Government and Community
Development
The Minister of the Budget
The Sub-Cabinet Committee and the National
Secretariat, Paglilingkod: Bagong Lipunan Program
WHEREAS, the rural service program has been in operation for more than two (2) years, having been initiated by Letter of Instruction No. 559 issued on June 23, 1977;
WHEREAS, the "Paglilingkod: Bagong Lipunan" program has successfully attained many of its objectives and is now ready to shift to new directions;
WHEREAS, the cost of the rural service program has to be reviewed in the light of new priorities occasioned by the international energy crisis and the need to support the housing program of government;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines do hereby order and instruct:
1.
Participation in the "Paglilingkod: Bagong Lipunan" program shall be
selective. Preference shall be given to senior officers and technical
personnel who can be depended upon in terms of perspective, maturity,
and special skills. Accordingly, the participation of national
government employees in the rural service program shall be limited to
bureau Directors, Assistant Directors, Chiefs of Division, or their
equivalent. Other employees of government shall participate in the
program as provided in this Letter.
2. The rural
service program shall be mission-oriented. To ensure the implementation
of specific projects that are decided upon by barangays as being of
utmost priority, barangays may request the Paglilingkod: Bagong Lipunan
National Sub-Cabinet Committee and the Secretariat (referred hereafter
as "Secretariat") to organize a rural service team consisting of
personnel from agencies with specified skills and talents. The
Secretariat shall arrange with the Heads of Office concerned for the
constitution of the appropriate team which shall then be authorized to
go on rural service for the identified mission. Similarly, staff
members of a particular office or group of offices, with specialized
technical competence, may propose a rural service project which they
can undertake as a group in a specific barangay or group of barangays.
They shall submit the proposal, with the recommendation of their
respective Heads of Office, to the Secretariat for review and approval.
3. The payment
of commutation of vacation leaves for participation in the rural
service program, shall be discontinued. This restriction shall apply to
the Paglilingkod: Bagong Lipunan Program and similar programs in other
agencies. Savings thus realized by national government agencies,
government corporations and local government units shall be available
to support all or part of the employer's share for employees in the
office, agency or corporation participating in the Ministry of Human
Settlement PAG-I.B.I.G. program (Home Development Mutual Fund)
implemented by the National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation,
supplementing the funding sources identified in Letter of Instructions
No. 937, directing the participation of the national government in the
PAG-I.B.I.G. program.
4. The
participation of employees of government-owned or controlled
corporations in the rural service program shall be limited to personnel
who comprise the third, fourth and fifth levels of said organizations,
subject to such rules and regulations as may be issued by the
Secretariat.
5. The
participation of local government units in the rural service program
shall be selective. Rural service shall be required only of officials
who comprise the third, fourth and fifth levels of the organization in
the cities and municipalities within Metropolitan Manila, Cebu City and
Davao City.
6. The concept
and implementation and further refinements of the rural service program
shall be reviewed by the Presidential Executive Assistant, the Minister
of Local Government and Community Development, assisted by the
Sub-Cabinet Committee and the Secretariat.
The TANGLAW program in the Ministry of National Defense and other equivalent programs in government shall be likewise reassessed by the Ministers concerned both in terms of the participating personnel and procedure of implementation. Recommendations shall be submitted through the President Executive Assistant within sixty (60) days hereof.
7.
Effective immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 12th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.
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