THE Senate finance committee approved on Thursday night the P1.1-billion proposed budget for the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), after the House of Representatives slashed its budget to P1,000.

But the approval of NCIP’s budget by the finance panel did not come without any condition and senators gave officials of the agency marching orders for them to come up with programs and projects that would make the office relevant.

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