MANILA - The government on Tuesday launched an online portal for job openings that will be generated by its P8-trillion infrastructure program.

An initial 11,000 jobs were posted at launch and another 100,000 will be posted in June. The "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" portal will be available on the "Build, Build, Build" website, said Public Works Secretary Mark Villar.

"Ginawa naming ang Jobs, Jobs, Jobs portal para maging accessible sa ating mga kababayan para malaman nila anong jobs ang available sa construction projects," Villar said.

(We created the Jobs, Jobs, Jobs portal to make accessible to our countrymen, jobs that are available in construction projects.)

Budget Sec. Benjamin Diokno earlier said that as many as 2 million construction jobs could be generated by the infrastructure program.

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Villar said openings for laborers as well as high-paying posts such as engineers will be posted in the portal.

"Ang sweldo, pag malakas ang demand, tataas din ang sweldo, magiging attractive na sa ating mga kababayan na nagtatrabaho sa abroad," he said.

(If demand is high, pay will also be high. It will be attractive, even for our countrymen who are working abroad.)

Villar said the first phase of the Laguna Highway, the Laguna phase of Cavite-Laguna Expressway, the Panglao airport in Bohol and the North Luzon Expressway Harbor Link Segment 10 would open this year.

"The Build, Build, Build program is all systems go, tuloy tuloy ang construction (construction continues). These are the years that we will feel the full effect of the program," he said.