A joint House panel approved — subject to amendments — a bill that would make the National Citizens Service Training Program mandatory for all college students and leave the ROTC as an option. | jiandradeINQ /PDI
HB 6486, authored by House Speaker Martin Romualdez, Majority Leader Manuel Jose Dalipe, and Tingog Sinirangan party list Representatives Yedda Marie Romualdez and Jude Acidre, sought to “establish a comprehensive system for the training and mobilization of our youth and implement the constitutional vision of drawing them into the mainstream of national life by providing avenues for their participation in public and civic affairs, primarily through the establishment of a mandatory NCSTP in...
Optional ROTC, on the other hand, would be “designed to produce officers for the citizen armed force and regular force of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.” “It is clear that the culture that ROTC propagates is the culture of violence, impunity and corruption, which it seeks to instill in the minds of the youth,” Brosas said of the mandatory program that was scrapped in 2002.
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