Solon’s pork for Mountain Province’s school children

Bontoc, Mountain Province — Who said "pork" is bad? In continuing efforts by Mountain Province Rep. Victor Dominguez’s to make education available to everybody and to increase chances of the youth in this province to finish college, at least P5 million for tuition fee subsidy to students enroled at the state-run Mt. Province State Polytechnic College has been earmarked.

The P5 million from Dominguez’s pork or now known as Priority Development Fund (PDAF) covers tuition fee subsidy for the first and second semesters of school year 2005-2006. Two and a half million is allotted per semester.

The tuition fee subsidy applies only to students from Mt. Province. Students from nearby provinces have to pay their tuition fee in full, he said.

School authorities at the MPSPC said each of the 3,383 Mt. Province students currently enrolled in this college will be given 50 percent discount in their tuition fees. First and second year students will only pay P30 per unit instead of the P60 which is the actual tuition fee while third and fourth year students will pay P20 from the actual tuition fee of P40 per unit.

This is the first time that Rep. Dominguez is extending such scholarship fund to the lone state college here. — Artemio Dumlao