PPP Center chief resigns (Goverment officials say project rollout.

THE HEAD of the agency tasked to oversee the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme has quit, Cabinet officials yesterday said even as they stressed that the resignation would not have an impact on the government's already-delayed centerpiece program.

Philamer C. Torio, executive director of the PPP Center, was not immediately available for comment but his superior, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Cayetano W. Paderanga, Jr., said a resignation letter was submitted last week.

President Benigno S. C. Aquino III has yet to give his consent, Sec. Ramon "Ricky" A. Carandang of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office said.

"It …