Evolution of NSTP Law

1935
Commonwealth Act
No. 1
(National Defense Act)
by President Manuel L.
Quezon

S.Y. 1986-1987
Reserve Officers
Training Corps
(ROTC)
by President Corazon
Aquino

1980
Presidential Decree No.
1706
(National Service Law)
by President Ferdinand
Marcos

2001
NSTP Act
By President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo

1935
It

Commonwealth Act No.1

(National Defense Act)

is a legislative act providing basis for the national

defense of the country, punishing certain violations
thereof, appropriating funds therefore and for other
purposes under the government of President
Manuel L. Quezon
It is the same law that required college students,
particularly males, to finish two years or 4
semesters of military training as a modality to
institutionalize the reservist system in the
Philippines national defense.

1980
Presidential Decree No. 1706
(National Service Law)
It mandated compulsory national service to
all Filipino citizens.
It was composed of 3 main program
components namely: Civic Welfare Service
(CWS), Law Enforcement Service (LES), and
Military Service (MS).
It is made by President Ferdinand Marcos.

S.Y. 1986-1987
Reserve officers Training corps
(rotc)
It

is embodied under Republic Act No. 7077

(The Citizen Armed Forces of the Philippines
Reservist Law) and become effective on
school year 1986-1987
This program aimed to realize the
constitutional mandate of developing a strong
civilian base to supplement the professional
military in the nations defense system

2001
Nstp act
It

was signed into law by then President Gloria

Macapagal- Arroyo as an aggressive modality
toward making the former national service
training that is military in nature, relevant to
the changing needs of the time
Its main objective is to stress the significant
role played by youth, male and female alike,
in the task of developing our nation via
national service training.

If given a chance to make history,

what would you add to the evolution
of the NSTP Law?
If

I were given a chance to make history

I would add to the evolution of NSTP
Law a program wherein its objective is
to teach out-of-school youths, to have
an interaction with the lower class of
people in the society for us to be able
know the situation they are in.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS OF
NSTP
1. Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)
- designed to provide military training to
tertiary level students in order to motivate,
train, organize and mobilize them for national
defense preparedness.
It can benefit the society because the
students who took ROTC would be
knowledgeable about military and they can
be of help if the society is in need of military.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS OF
NSTP
2. Literacy Training Service (LTS)
- designed to train students to teach literacy
and numeracy skills to school children, outof-school youth and other segments of
society in need of their services.
It can benefit the society because most
out-of-school youths would know how to
write and read or other basic things we
learn in school.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS OF
NSTP
3. Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)
- refers to activities contributory to the
general welfare and the betterment of life
for the members of the community or the
enhancement of facilities.
It can benefit the different communities
in the country by providing livelihood
programs and the likes.

Given the current situation of our country,

what would be the role of youth as far as
community development is concerned?
The

role of the youth would be to help in

the betterment of our society with these
programs. And they would be the one to
encourage citizens about different
program in improving our country.