DAR Secretary John R. Castriciones’ Statement on the Anti-Red Tape Authority’s Commendation of DAR

The Department of Agrarian Reform is very pleased that the measures the agency has placed to streamline its services have been noticed and commended by the Anti-Red Tape Authority.

DAR has been hard at work to respond to the needs of our farmer-beneficiaries and the directives of President Duterte.

Our compliance with Republic Act No. 11032, known as the “Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018” is only one of DAR’s steps to ensure easier and faster delivery of quality services to the public.

A ZERO-BACKLOG program has been launched this year by DAR’s Agrarian Legal Sector to tackle cases that have accumulated during the previous administrations. I have challenged the Central and Field Offices to resolve all pending cases before 2022.

For the first semester of 2019, a total of 905 cases have been resolved have been resolved by the DAR Adjudication Board, while 9,896 cases were resolved by the Field Offices. The Cordillera Administrative Region and Region II are the top performers with a perfect accomplishment rate of 100 percent, followed by Region I with 93.75 percent, Region IV-B with 90.9 percent, and Region VII with 78.98 percent.

In total, DAR’s overall mid-year accomplishment for this semester is 54.9 percent, receiving a total caseload of 4,187 cases, and resolving 2,297 legal agrarian cases from the same.

Moreover, the DAR Land Use Cases Committee (LUCC) was formed this year to act on all applications for land use conversion and exemption from the coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).

We believe that more than any recognition, the satisfaction of our farmer-beneficiaries continue to be DAR’s best reward.

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