Gatchalian, chair of the Senate Energy Committee, aired this concern ahead of the Senate’s scheduled deliberation on the proposed budget of the DOE and the National Electrification Administration for the country’s total electrification program or TEP.
DOE is pushing for a P2.3-billion budget for 2020, P500 million of which will go to the national electrification program. “Kung mayroon sana tayong national unified strategy for electrification, ang bawat taxpayers sa bansa ay hindi mangangamba kung ang pera nila ay ginagamit lamang na slush fund ng dalawang ahensya ,” he said.
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