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Parliament has approved the National Service Authority Bill 2024, setting the stage for creating the National Service Authority.
This new entity will focus on mobilising and posting qualified individuals to priority areas to drive national development and boost youth employability.
The bill officially establishes the National Service Authority as a corporate body with the authority to develop and implement national service policies and programmes.
This initiative is poised to be pivotal in tackling youth unemployment and promoting national growth.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, 9 July 2024, the Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Osei Assibey Antwi, shared his enthusiasm for the bill’s passage and its potential benefits for the nation’s youth.
“If you have a vibrant youth, if you have a youth that has a future, if you have a youth that knows where they are going, if you have a youth that has the policy to guide them, especially at this time that the current management and the board have now moved into a new direction called deployment for employment. This deployment for employment can only be enhanced with this current backing,” Mr. Assibey Antwi stated.
He emphasised that the bill’s passage would empower the authority to generate internal funds, thus supporting the government’s efforts to create employment opportunities for the youth.
“Now, Parliament has given us autonomy, an authority vested with powers in areas where it will enhance entrepreneurship. With this current status, NSS can work to achieve a lot of internally generated funds to reduce the burden on the central government, and we know the President will assent to it to give it the finality,” Mr. Assibey Antwi added.
Source: classfmonline.com
