The National Service Secretariat (NSS) has released the postings for the 2019/2020 service year.
A total of 77,962 personnel have been deployed to do their mandatory one-year national service.
Out of the number, 66,348 have been deployed to the public sector, representing 85.1% of the total posting.
The private sector received 11,614 service personnel, representing 14.9% of the total figure.
Some 6,000 personnel have been deployed to support the agriculture, sector including the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ policy.
Another 2,000 personnel have also been deployed to support the introduction of the entrepreneurship programme in poultry production, with a focus on all the value chains in poultry production.
Regional distribution
The trend in the regional distribution with regard to requests, choice of regions and deployments have not seen much changes compared to the previous years.
The Greater Accra, Northern and Ashanti regions received very high posting requests while the Upper East and West regions recorded low requests.
Registration and checking of postings
Prospective service personnel are, however, to take note that they cannot print out the appointment letters until Friday, July 19, 2019.
Postings registration will commence at all regional centres across the country from Monday, July 22, 2019 to Friday, August 30, 2019.
This period is provided to give service personnel sufficient time to go through the registration processes before they formally begin their national service on Monday, September 2, 2019.
New modality
Unlike previous years, National Service personnel, contrary to the previous year’s processes, would be required to seek the consent of the user agency to which they are posted before submitting the final document for approval at the office(s) of the scheme.
Warning
To avoid instances of impersonation or attempt(s) by unscrupulous persons to compromise the process, all prospective service personnel would be required to provide their students’ identification cards and any one of the following – valid Ghanaian passport, voter identity card, or driver’s licence.
National Health Insurance identity cards are, however, not acceptable.
Management of the scheme wishes to advise prospective National Service personnel to stay away from people who may approach them to offer them assistance to change their postings.
Such unscrupulous persons should be reported to any officer of the Scheme or the law enforcement agencies for the necessary action to be taken against them.
Source: The Finder
