DAVAO DE ORO (PIA) -- The two-day Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fair (BPSF) starting today is expected to pour a total of P292,507,616.42 national government services for around 47,300 beneficiaries in Davao de Oro.

Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman, who is the guest of honor and speaker in today's BPSF in Davao de Oro, cited this as a strategy of President Ferdinand Marcos R. Marcos Jr. to fast-track the delivery of government services and to bring government services closer to the people.

First to have visited Davao de Oro and seldom on grassroots engagements, Pangandaman grasped the reality of service delivery of the government programs and projects that DBM had approved.

She made the audiences understand that the united effort of all national line agencies to come together, hauling services under one roof, is a way of fulfilling a government’s vision that “we are all united to attain a principled, accountable and dependable government.”

On the other hand, Davao de Oro Provincial Governor Dorothy Gonzaga told the Davao media that the provincial government is open to sustain and spread the services offered during the Services Fair staged in Monkayo.

She lauded the people who availed of the services and cited their act as a manifestation of their trust and confidence to the government. Davao de Oro is the only province in Mindanao which hosted the simultaneous launch of Bagong Pilipinas Service Fair.

Services offered in the two-day Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fair are seen to have socio-economic impact as these include those for  livelihood and education opportunities, regulatory, among others.

The Department of Health, together with the Davao Regional Medical Center and the Municipal Health Office, delivers medical services including bloodletting, and acupuncture services at the Monkayo Municipal Dome.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development, in coordination with their local counterpart, distributes a total of P81 million financial aid under the Assistance to Individual in Crisis Situation (AICS) to 31,000 persons.

Among the services of the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Philippine Coconut Authority, and Department of Environment and Natural Resources is  the distribution of  fertilizer, tilapia fingerlings, hybrid coconut seedlings, and other seedlings, respectively.

The Department of Labor and Employment, Department of Migrant Workers, and the Public Employment Services Offices conduct Job Fair at Monkayo College of Arts, Sciences, and Technology.

Around 1,000 individuals are expected to avail of the Passport on Wheels from the Department of Foreign Affairs while 600 individuals are set to renew their driver’s license from the Land Transportation Office.

Local farmers and producers will also display their products in the Diskwento Caravan organized by the Department of Trade Industry, and Kadiwa ng Pangulo.

Among other government agencies, which are extending their respective  services are Department of Agrarian Reform, Commission on Higher Education, Department of Science and Technology, Office of Civil Defense, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Food and Drug Administration, Philippine National Police, Professional Regulatory Commission, National Bureau of Investigation, Philippine Statistics Authority, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation.

Other government agencies are Social Security System, Home Mutual Development Fund / PAG-IBIG, Government Service Insurance System, Public Attorney’s Office, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Department of Information and Communication Technology, Department of Education, Philippine Army, National Food Authority, Department of the Interior and Local Government, and several local government offices.  (JMDA with report from Michael Uy/ PIA Davao de Oro Infocen)