SMC turns over land titles to relocated families in Bulacan

SMC’s airport project is something REBPH looks forward to accomplish. It did the right thing from the very beginning when it provided houses to those affected by the project. Now, the house owners are proudly holding on to their land titles.

San Miguel Corp. on Tuesday said it formally turned over land ownership titles to former residents of Sitio Kinse in Barangay Taliptip, who were relocated to give way to the conglomerate’s multibillion international airport project.

They are part of the last batch of former residents to move out of the future site of San Miguel P740-billion airport project. They were able to buy land and build new homes in Barangay Bambang, Bulakan with the financial assistance provided to them by the conglomerate.

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The company also helped them find the property they chose, construct their houses and secured for them electricity and water utilities connection. San Miguel said it also took care of processing the transfer of ownership and titling of properties to their names.

The turnover was held last December 3, the company said.

The former Sitio Kinse residents did not own the land where their houses on stilts stood. They also did not have access to water and electricity.

Immediately after the completion of construction, they decided to move into their new houses last October 31 before heavy rains and wind brought by Typhoon Ulysses reached many parts of Luzon, including Bulacan.

Many of the residents still rely on fishing but the conglomerate said it is providing them livelihood and skills training opportunities through the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.

Recently, the first 58 graduates of the TESDA courses completed their courses in shielded metal arc welding, electrical installation and maintenance, heavy equipment operations, dressmaking, and cookery.

About 12 graduates of the Heavy Equipment Operator course are set to be employed in the ongoing dredging project in Tullahan River and also the planned river channel improvement projects in Bulacan.

San Miguel provided a total of 277 owners of concrete and shanty houses in Barangay Taliptip with financial assistance. The company gave owners of non-concrete houses or shanties P250,000 each, while owners of concrete houses were given the appraised value of their homes, multiplied by two, plus P100,000.

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San Miguel also provided cash assistance to 87 others who were disqualified, for a total of 364 beneficiaries.

Upon the request of Malolos Bishop Dennis Villarojo, San Miguel also distributed the total appraised cash value of abandoned chapels in Sitio Pariyahan, Sitio Dapdap, Sitio Bunutan and Sitio Capol to the 242 residents of these sitios.

Many decided to stay in Bulacan, but some of the residents decided to go back to their provinces Samar, Negros, Nueva Ecija, Sorsogon, Mindoro, Masbate, Camarines Sur, Malabon, Bataan Valenzuela, Parañaque, Dumaguete and Albay.

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Article and Photo originally posted by Business Mirror last December 9, 2020 and written by VG Cabuag. Minor edits have been made by REBPH to cater to its own readers.

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