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Coverage: Commonwealth Act No. 1
Coverage: Commonwealth Act No. 1
preparedness program students instituted by the Government of the Philippines on 5 January 2000 by
virtue of Republic Act 9163, otherwise known as the "National Service Training Program (NSTP) Act
of 2001."
Coverage
Under the NSTP Program, both male and female college students of any baccalaureate
degree course or technical vocational course in public or private educational institutions are obliged
to undergo one of three program components for an academic period of two semesters. The students,
however, are free to choose which particular program component to take. The three NSTP Program
components are:
Graduates of the ROTC program component are organized into the Citizen Armed Force, while
graduates of the LTS and CWTS program components are organized into the National Service
Reserve Corps (NSRC) administered by the Department of National Defense, the Commission on
Higher Education and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.
Precedents
There have been several legal precedents to the National Service Training Program (NSTP)
Act of 2001. These include: