Land Transportation Office-7’s Malasakit Driving Education Center and Malasakit DEC Bus has issued 4,457 scholarships or nearly P15-million worth of scholarship value, one year after its launching in October 2020.
This developed as LTO-7 has recently given another TDC scholarships, this time to the mountain barangay captains in Cebu City.
“We gave TDCs to the upland barangays that participated in the meeting with LTO, where the need for proper licensing and registration was discussed as key issues,” LTO-7 regional director Victor Caindec said.
Caindec said that TDC scholarship slots were given to the village chiefs where they need to fill in the given slots before the agency can proceed with the TDC lecture.
“We didn’t just hand over the scholarships, the barangay leaders were tasked to screen the participants and organize the venue. It was a collaboration between local grassroots leaders and LTO as a national government agency bringing its services to the people,” Caindec said.
Under LTO Memorandum 2019-2176 all applicants of student permit shall undergo the 15-hour TDC.
Residents from Barangay Sudlon 1 were the firsts to avail of the free 15-hour driving course.
Aside from Sudlon I, village chiefs from barangays Agsungot, Busay, Babag, Bonbon, Sinsin, Sirao, Pamutan, Tabunan, Pung-ol Sibugay, Taptap, and Toong also received their TDC scholarship slots.
Caindec added that since they launched the Serbisyong Malasakit in the region, this is the first time that the agency brought its services to the people of the mountain barangay.
“We brought to the highland barangay, our LTO Malasakit Bus to also cater for license and registration renewals, where normally they have to avail of this service in the Metro areas,” Caindec said.
The LTO-7 chief further that 11 other mountain barangays of Cebu City will be next in line to be reached by the LTO 7 Serbisyong Malasakit program. (By: April Therese Tan)