DILG URGES CORDI LGU’S TO JOIN BARANGAY AT KALINISAN DAY (BarKaDa) LAUNCHING

September 17, 2023 Community Billboard

BAGUIO CITY

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Cordillera urges local government units (LGUs) in the region to participate in the launching of the Barangay at Kalinisan Day (BarKaDa) on September 16, 2023. “All LGUs are expected to conduct a simultaneous clean up drive within their locality following the national launching of the BarKaDa program in Metro Manila on September 16, 2023, with the theme “Buhayin ang Diwa ng Bayanihan; Mag-volunteer
Tayong Lahat para sa Kalikasan”, said Regional Director Araceli San Jose.

Adding, “We are urging all provincial, city, municipal, and barangay governments to separately conduct a clean-up drive in the different sites within their area of jurisdiction on the same day of the launching which should be participated in by their respective local government employees, partner organizations, private sector and the citizenry,” she added.

In Memorandum Circular No. 2023-133 of the DILG, BarKaDa is a nationwide community-based clean-up drive program that is anchored on the culture of bayanihan that aims to maintain and provide a healthy and safe environment for the people through proper solid waste management RD San Jose underscored that all LGUs should ensure and support the right of the people to balance ecology and preserve the comfort and convenience of their inhabitants to promote general welfare based on the Local Government Code of 1991.

She added that all LGUs should adopt and implement a systematic, comprehensive and ecological solid waste program based on RA 9003, or the Solid Waste Management Act