LEDAC execom to endorse 10 priority bills to Marcos

The executive committee of the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) will recommend 10 bills to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to be tagged as priority legislations for the current session of the Congress.

“The LEDAC met to agree on the criteria for prioritization of common legislative bills and in the process, we come up with a list that we will endorse to our President for confirmation,” said National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary Arsenio Balisacan on the sidelines of an event in

Quezon City on Monday.

Balisacan said the 10 priority bills listed by LEDAC are critical legislations to the success of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2023-2028 and the administration’s eightpoint socioeconomic agenda.

The NEDA chief declined to divulge further information, but said one of the priority bills is the

Philippine Ecosystem and Natural Capital Accounting System (PENCAS).

Balisacan said the passage of PENCAS will support the targets of PDP 2023-2028, particularly Chapter 15, the “Accelerate Climate Action and Strengthening Disaster Resilience” of the blueprint.

“Chapter 15 of the PDP, in particular, aims to

DICT says over 32M SIMs registered as of Feb. 12

Over 32 million SIMs have been registered as of February 12, the Department of Information and Technology (DICT) reported on Monday.

Meanwhile, DITO Telecommunity Corp. reported a total of 2,452,582 SIMs registered, or 18.71 percent of its 13,108,103 subscribers.