The Mandaue City Government holds a public hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, to introduce the planned implementation of the Paleng-QR Ph Plus. | Mary Rose Sagarino
The city wants to adopt the program initiated by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Department of Interior and Local Government to promote a cashlight society. Under the Paleng-QR Ph Plus program, buyers can make payments and vendors can give the change using mobile wallets among others. He said that germs could stay on bills for almost 21 days. He added that public market and transportation are one of the sources of dirty and dilapidated paper bills.One concern the vendors raised was
“Hinay-hinay lang kay sama atoang giingun nila nga aduna pay dili kaayo mogamit sa cellphone. Tan-aw ko nakasabot-sabot na ang uban,” said Del Castillo, chairman of the committee on Market and Abattoir.