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Enhance NSTP instead of pushing for NCST — CSC president

THE GOVERNMENT should work on enhancing the National Service Training Program (NSTP) instead of creating a new program for citizen service, the UST Central Student Council (CSC) president said on Dec. 6.

In a public hearing at the House of Representatives, CSC President Nathan Agustin urged lawmakers not to push through with the National Citizens Service Training (NCST) program, which seeks to enlist more reservists for disaster response and instill nationalism among young Filipinos.

“Why not augment the current NSTP program [and] retain that current freedom of choice that we have as students as to how we would like to serve our country? We understand that there is a need to have disaster preparedness, but I believe that the