BACOLOD CITY: About P200-million worth of projects were approved for Negros Occidental under the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), which used the US $670 million loan from the World Bank (WB).

Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. said the local government units which are identified as beneficiaries of the projects will have to allocate a 10-percent counterpart fund for them to avail of the WB funds.

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