Baguio City attracts Cordi’s poor 05-10-02

	NORDIS WEEKLY October 2, 2005
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Baguio City attracts Cordi’s poor
BAGUIO CITY (Oct. 5) – Director Ma. Aurora C. Quiray of the Population Commission of the Cordillera Administrative Region (Popcom-CAR) claimed that urbanization in the region is expected to reach 55% by the year 2020, based on the present trends. Popcom-CAR claims that an estimated 25,000 persons a year have been adding up to the population of the region. Answering media query, Quiray claims that the push factor for the peoples’ migration to Baguio City and other urban centers in the region is the gnawing poverty in the provinces, including adjacent Regions 1 and 2. Quiray adds that the pull factor, especially Baguio City, is its being the educational center of northern Luzon. The Popcom regional office found out that around one-fifth (1/5) or 18.5 % of the region’s registered population of 1,365,412, as of May 2000, is in Baguio City. Considered by Popcom-CAR as the region’s service and trade center, Baguio City registered a measure of 4,389 persons per square kilometer. Baguio as the urban center of the region has the highest population density. Popcom-CAR added that Baguio is among the 14 cities and urban centers in the country with population exceeding 250,000 in the year 2000. Due to the concentration of population in urban centers, particularly Baguio City, Quiray said that the option is to decongest. She raised that development should also be introduced not only in the urban centers but to areas where trade can be possible, like in areas in the triboundary of Mountain Province, Benguet and Ilocos Sur. She admitted, however, that the government failed to come up with concrete solutions in the provinces where poverty is a daily reality pushing residents to migrate to urban centers. Quiray also enumerated laws that mandate local government units (LGUs) to respond to urbanization and population management which include Republic Act (RA) 7160 or the local government code that devolves basic and facilities to the local government units; Executive Order (EO) No. 307 devolving population management to LGUs; and RA 7279 which devolved to LGUs the power to monitor the movement of people from rural to urban and address the problems related with the migration. “Political will is therefore needed for the LGUs to implement these laws,” she pointed out. The media commented that several past administrations adopted growth programs for the Cordillera provinces but none had so far been realized among these programs. The Popcom-CAR revealed that among the six provinces of the Cordillera excluding Baguio City, Benguet has the largest population at 330,129 (in 2000) while Apayao registered the smallest at 97,129 in the same census year. # Arthur Allad-iw for NORDIS
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	NORDIS WEEKLY October 2, 2005
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Baguio City attracts Cordi’s poor
BAGUIO CITY (Oct. 5) – Director Ma. Aurora C. Quiray of the Population Commission of the Cordillera Administrative Region (Popcom-CAR) claimed that urbanization in the region is expected to reach 55% by the year 2020, based on the present trends. Popcom-CAR claims that an estimated 25,000 persons a year have been adding up to the population of the region. Answering media query, Quiray claims that the push factor for the peoples’ migration to Baguio City and other urban centers in the region is the gnawing poverty in the provinces, including adjacent Regions 1 and 2. Quiray adds that the pull factor, especially Baguio City, is its being the educational center of northern Luzon. The Popcom regional office found out that around one-fifth (1/5) or 18.5 % of the region’s registered population of 1,365,412, as of May 2000, is in Baguio City. Considered by Popcom-CAR as the region’s service and trade center, Baguio City registered a measure of 4,389 persons per square kilometer. Baguio as the urban center of the region has the highest population density. Popcom-CAR added that Baguio is among the 14 cities and urban centers in the country with population exceeding 250,000 in the year 2000. Due to the concentration of population in urban centers, particularly Baguio City, Quiray said that the option is to decongest. She raised that development should also be introduced not only in the urban centers but to areas where trade can be possible, like in areas in the triboundary of Mountain Province, Benguet and Ilocos Sur. She admitted, however, that the government failed to come up with concrete solutions in the provinces where poverty is a daily reality pushing residents to migrate to urban centers. Quiray also enumerated laws that mandate local government units (LGUs) to respond to urbanization and population management which include Republic Act (RA) 7160 or the local government code that devolves basic and facilities to the local government units; Executive Order (EO) No. 307 devolving population management to LGUs; and RA 7279 which devolved to LGUs the power to monitor the movement of people from rural to urban and address the problems related with the migration. “Political will is therefore needed for the LGUs to implement these laws,” she pointed out. The media commented that several past administrations adopted growth programs for the Cordillera provinces but none had so far been realized among these programs. The Popcom-CAR revealed that among the six provinces of the Cordillera excluding Baguio City, Benguet has the largest population at 330,129 (in 2000) while Apayao registered the smallest at 97,129 in the same census year. # Arthur Allad-iw for NORDIS
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