The National Service Authority Bill 2024 has been approved by parliament.
The purpose of the bill is to create the National Service Authority, which will be tasked with recruiting and assigning eligible individuals to national service in areas of national importance for the advancement of employability.
Additionally, it aims to establish the authority as a corporate entity with the necessary legal ability to create and carry out national service policies and programmes.
In a Tuesday, July 9 media interaction, Osei Assibey Antwi, the Executive Director of the National Service Scheme, expressed his happiness with the bill’s approval and outlined its possible advantages.
“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 added that the bill’s passage will the authority to generate funds internally to complement the government’s efforts toward creating employment opportunities for the youth.
“Now, Parliament has given us an autonomy, an authority that is vested with powers in areas where it is going to enhance entrepreneurship.
“With this current status, NSS can work to achieve a lot of internally-generated funds to reduce the burden from the central government and we know the President will assent to it to give it the finality.”