Naga City Essay

I: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the late 1990s, the Naga City faces a dilemma regarding overpopulation. Thousands of immigrants move to the urban areas like Naga City as a strategy of survival because urban areas have more job opportunities and other privileges than that of rural areas. Thus, the drastic increase in population cannot be supported by the limited resources of the city including public service. Because of this, former Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo came up with a plan to address the problem on population, as well as all the problems that comes with it. He, together with his team, created Metro Naga Development Council. MNDC faced many problems such as its lack of authority to impose its plans on the local executives of different local

Because of this, the city faces problems such as poor air quality, water pollution, and waste management and traffic management problems. Benguet province, on the other hand, can provide for the space that Baguio city cannot give to its inhabitants. If Baguio city and Benguet province will adopt a Metro Development Model just like that of Naga City and its neighboring municipalities, then it will answer the problem of Baguio city’s population congestion and all of the problems that comes with overpopulation.
2. The local executives and all elective officials are willing to set aside their political differences and partisan politics. Partisan politics is one of the major reasons why Metro Development Model may not be implemented successfully in other parts of the Philippines. Unless this kind of political mentality is set aside, then the problems will remain. If the local executives and all elective officials are willing to cooperate despite the political differences in Baguio City and Benguet province, then there will be shared progress between the