Establishment of Northern Regional Manpower Training Center for NMYC-NCR

January 23, 1986

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 1081

ESTABLISHING THE NORTHERN REGIONAL MANPOWER TRAINING CENTER FOR THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION (NCR) OF THE NATIONAL MANPOWER AND YOUTH COUNCIL AT THE KAUNLARAN VILLAGE OF THE NATIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY AND ALLOCATING FUNDS FOR ITS OPERATIONALIZATION

WHEREAS, the National Manpower and Youth Council (NMYC) as the government agency primarily responsible for manpower development, provides basic skills training for immediate employment of idle labor forces; cd

WHEREAS, there is a concentration of unskilled employables in the Northern Sector of Metro Manila particularly in the Tondo-Navotas-Malabon-Caloocan Area;

WHEREAS, the Kaunlaran Village, a sites and services project of the National Housing Authority, is strategically located and accessible to the targeted labor force in Northern Metro Manila and has the available institutional area for development as a training center; acd

WHEREAS, manpower development is an effective vehicle to harness the individual in national progress and development particularly in enhancing the well-being of the urban poor;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution do hereby order as follows:

SECTION 1. The Northern Regional Manpower Training Center for National Capital Region (NCR) of the National Manpower and Youth Council (NMYC) is hereby established in the Kaunlaran Village of the National Housing Authority in Navotas, Metro Manila.

SECTION 2. The National Housing Authority shall designate an area of not less than 5,000 square meters for the exclusive use of the Northern Regional Manpower Training Center. asia dc

SECTION 3. The Ministry of Public Works and Highways (MPWH) in consultation with the National Manpower and Youth Council (NMYC) and the National Housing Authority shall provide and construct Bagong Lipunan (Pre-fab) Building/s with an aggregate total area of 3,000 square meters.

SECTION 4. The Office of the Budget and Management shall release TWO MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS (P2,300,000.00) from the Special Activities Fund of the Office of the President to support the Center's requirements for equipment and its operating expenses for 1986. The NMYC shall henceforth include in its annual program and budget funds for the operation of the said Center.

SECTION 5. The National Manpower and Youth Council and the National Housing Authority shall jointly promulgate the implementing guidelines, procedures and a program of work of the above-mentioned Center.

SECTION 6. This Executive Order takes effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of January, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Six.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 82 No. 5 page 776 on February 3, 1986.