Senate Bill 1551 or the Mandatory Basic Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) Act, filed by Senator Sherwin T. Gatchalian, also seeks to reinstitute a two-year voluntary Advance ROTC Program at the tertiary level. READ:
Training Corps Act, filed by Senator Sherwin T. Gatchalian, also seeks to reinstitute a two-year voluntary Advance ROTC Program at the tertiary level.
The ROTC requirement was abolished in 2002 with the passage of Republic Act 9163, which established the National Service Training Program . Moves to abolish the ROTC as a mandatory program was prompted by the murder of a private university student who reported on corruption in the system with students paying off military training officers to skip but pass the requirement.
The program is intended to enhance the capacity of the nation and its human resource in times of war, calamities and disasters, as well as national or local emergencies.Mr. Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate committee on basic education, has withdrawn a similar bill he filed earlier covering senior high school students.
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