I don't live on Cabanatuan City so i don't really care but then again i was force to do this blog because I'm studying here in ABE Cabanatuan branch
I think it's going to great, "H.U.C. Cabanatuan kaganda pakingan diba" pero i don't really know what being an H.U.C. city means. H.U.C. means Highly Urbanized City and Cabanatuan going to be.
Here is the news from the newsinfo.inquirer.net says that
CABANATUAN CITY—President Benigno Aquino III has upgraded this Nueva
Ecija metropolis into a highly urbanized city (HUC), which takes effect
once its residents ratify Proclamation No. 418 within four months.
The proclamation, dated July 4, said this city has fulfilled the HUC
minimum requirements of 200,000 residents, as certified by the National
Statistics Office (NSO), as well as an annual income of P50 million.
The directive addressed a request submitted in July last year by the
city council. It said that a plebiscite must be set within 120 days from
the presidential declaration, or until November.
The HUC bid had polarized Mayor Julius Caesar Vergara and Nueva Ecija
Gov. Aurelio Umali, who opposed the conversion. “It is the declared
policy of the government to support local governments’ initiatives to
attain their fullest development as self-reliant communities and make
them effective partners in the attainment of national goals,” said the
proclamation.
Elizabeth Rayo, NSO Nueva Ecija director, has certified that this
city hosts 259,267 people based on a 2007 census, while Jose Tan, deputy
executive director for operations of the Department of Finance, has
certified that the city’s annual regular income at 1991 constant prices
was P235 million. Anselmo Roque and Armand Galang, Inquirer Central Luzon
