DePEd finds 1,000 DPWH-made classrooms 'unusable'

Not just flood control projects, but even classrooms built by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) were found to be not completed.

- By BELLA CARIASO

Education Secretary Sonny Angara yesterday revealed that more than 1,000 classrooms turned over by the DPWH to the Department of Education were not completed.

In an interview over dzRH, Angara said the DepEd has launched an audit of classrooms built by the DPWH following reports of ghost and substandard flood control projects.

"We are seeing incomplete (classroom projects). It's not totally a ghost, but the classrooms are not finished... It's not being used because the classroom is not fully completed," Angara said, noting that some of the classrooms turned over lacked paint and electricity.

Angara added that his office is verifying whether the more than 1,000 incomplete classrooms were fully paid for, adding that he has ordered all concerned officials to submit reports on ghost or unfinished school buildings.