Following the recent controversy that saw Bacolod City’s position plummet from second in 2010 to 73rd in this year’s Cities and Municipalities Competitive Index conducted by the National Competitiveness Council of the Philippines (NCC), Kasadya Bacolod Development Foundation, Incorporated President Rhoderick Samonte believes that the ranking is a “surprising misnomer” since the city did not participate in the search.
According to Samonte, the city wasn’t able to submit the full requirements to the NCC because the local government focused most of its attention on bigger things during the advent of 2015. These included the hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit on Disaster Risk Finance last April and the creation of the APEC Technical Working Group that led in the overall preparation of the event.
“We should not have been ranked in the first place,” said Samonte, while saying that if Bacolod had participated, the city would have ranked in the top 5 “at the very least”.
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