DOST agency divided on housing project
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By Anna Valmero
INQUIRER.net
MAKATI CITY, Philippines — Issues concerning the housing project of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) agency Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) remained unsettled and continued to divide ITDI employees after two meetings held Thursday.
The housing project involves six parcels of land in barangay Molino in Bacoor, Cavite.
The land, which has a total area of 244,456 square meters, was used as an agricultural research site by the ITDI, formerly known as the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST).
When ITDI was reorganized in 1987, its agricultural research functions were transferred to University of the Philippines Los Baños.
In 1992, a resolution was passed to use the land as housing project for ITDI employees, which was made legal by the issuance of Executive Order 137 signed by President Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo in October 2002.
