The Department of Education (DepEd) has recently been criticized for allegedly being incapable of paying the salaries of its current and former workers for months. However, DepEd Information and Communication Technology Services Director Abram Abanil said that the agency has already released a partial payment to the firm that produces episodes for its TV-based mode of instruction.
According to him, a payment of P9 million has been released by the agency to Ei2 Tech Inc. run by television host Paolo Bediones last Monday.
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Several workers of Ei2 Tech Inc. have come forward since December, along with a group of former executive producers as they consider taking legal action against the company due to their salaries being long-delayed for months.
However, Abanil said due to the education department and production company having different banks, there was a delay in transferring the payment to Ei2 Tech Inc.
As far as we’re concerned, we’re paying them na for Milestone 1 except iyon nga, dahil pala sa processing ng LandBank, it takes one to two weeks pa pala even after… we’ve transferred funds… That’s just for partial payment na ginawa nila last year (for what they did last year). I think good for 640 episodes,
he said.
A P45.5 million contract was awarded to Ei2 Tech Inc. by DepEd on December for the agency’s DepEd TV project. In the agreement, teachers will be trained by Ei2 Tech Inc. on TV-based instruction and produce curriculum-based TV lessons which will be delivered in 5 milestones.
Abanil explained that the department was already processing payments for the second and third milestones of the project and would be paid for each milestone.
Ongoing na iyong processing sa accounting for it to be paid. Sa experience namin, it takes, normally it takes one to two weeks din sa accounting before it gets released,
he said.
DepEd has relayed to Bediones about the complaints they have also received about salaries being delayed for the workers of Ei2 Tech Inc.
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