CITIES and provinces that wish to be classified as highly urbanized should work doubly hard after Congress on second reading approved a proposal that would require annual incomes of P180 million and P200 million, respectively to earn that distinction.

In approving House Bill 5021 that seeks to amend the 1991 Local Government Code (LGC), lawmakers now want to raise the income for would-be highly urbanized cities from P50 million to P180 million.

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