Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman (5th from left) was bestowed the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) Tanglaw ng Bayan Award, the highest recognition the university gives to government officials, during the PUP’s Commencement Exercises for graduate students held Friday, April 21. Officials from PUP and the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), the school’s job creation partner, recently paid a courtesy call on Pangandaman at the Department of Budget and Management office in San Miguel, Manila. Photos shows Pangandaman with ECOP president Sergio Ortiz Luis Jr. (4th from left), PUP president Manuel M. Muhi (3rd from right), and (from left) Dean Cindy Fetalvero Soliman, Director Ruby Muro of DBM, Prof. Pascualito Gatan, VP Emanuel de Guzman, and Head EA Anne Clarisse De Leon.