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TO ensure optimal use of government lands, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered for the creation of an inter-agency coordinating council that will consolidate the master list of all lands owned by the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The move will also boost the administration\u2019s Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028, according to the President.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Administrative Order No. 21 signed by Executive Secretary Lucas P. Bersamin on April 30, President Marcos emphasized one of the key strategies identified in the PDP 2023-2028 to establish liveable communities \u201cis the creation of a database containing a complete inventory of idle government lands.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cTo ensure the efficient and effective allocation and utilization of land resources for the country\u2019s national development goals, it is necessary to consolidate a comprehensive list of all government lands,\u201d President Marcos said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n With this, President Marcos created an Inter-Agency Coordinating Council tasked to create a \u201cMaster List\u201d of all government lands.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Coordinating Council is composed of the heads of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) as co-chairpersons while the Department of Agriculture (DA) will serve as vice chair.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Members of the Coordinating Council are the Office of the Executive Secretary; Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG); DA; Office of the Solicitor General (OSG); Department of Justice (DOJ); Land Registration Authority (LRA); Commission on Higher Education (CHED); and the Department of Information and Communications (DICT).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The DENR-Land Management Bureau (LMB) will serve as the Secretariat of the Coordinating Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Copy of the AO 21 is available at the Official Gazette where duties and functions of the Coordinating Council are stated along with other clauses.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The AO 21 shall take effect immediately upon its publication in the Official Gazette or a newspaper of general circulation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TO ensure optimal use of government lands, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered for the creation of an inter-agency coordinating council that will consolidate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5606,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions\/5606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}