National Service Personnel Week Celebration has begun throughout the Districts in the country and it is expected to end on Sunday, 1st August 2021 under the theme, “Sustainable Mining for National Development, An All in All Call”.
A total of Eighty-Six Thousand Four Hundred and Seventy-Eight (86,478) eligible graduates from accredited tertiary institutions and private were enrolled for the 2020/2021 national service, to various user agencies across Ghana.
The National Service program is a compulsory one-year service required of all citizens of Ghana who are 18 years and above, at the time of deployment.
Established in 1973, the National Service Scheme (NSS) is a Government of Ghana program under the Ministry of Education of Ghana with a National Secretariat in Accra, and offices in all administrative regions and districts across the country.
The scheme is mandated to deploy a pool of skilled manpower drawn primarily from tertiary institutions to support the development efforts of both the public and private sectors in Ghana.
Although it is a citizenry requirement for all Ghanaians who are eighteen years above, it is currently limited to and mandatory for all Ghanaians graduating from tertiary educational institutions who are not less than eighteen years old.
The original intent of deploying freshly graduating youth under the NSS arrangement is to ensure that priority sectors of our national life are never lacking in the requisite human resources needed for development.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
