The National Service Scheme (NSS) has de\u00adbunked news making rounds that there will be no postings this year due to the Ebola scare.<\/p>\n
Consequently, the NSS at a press conference on Monday an\u00adnounced that postings will be released at 6 pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Graduates have been de\u00adployed to government priority areas such as agriculture, edu\u00adcation, health, local govern\u00adment, military, co-operatives and any other areas deemed necessary.<\/p>\n
Sectors for postings will in\u00adclude education, with a total 36,825; 3,157 of this number will be deployed to the tertiary education level to support training institutions in faculty work, research and administra\u00adtion.<\/p>\n
The health sector also re\u00adceived 2,685 persons to sup\u00adport health delivery, especially in clinics, hospitals, immunisa\u00adtion centres and the National Health Insurance Scheme, making 4% of the total num\u00adber.<\/p>\n
The scheme continued its support to the private sector to\u00a0meet their human resource re\u00adquirements with 10,427 per\u00adsonnel, which represent 13.2% of the total service deployment.<\/p>\n
The scheme has specifically deployed personnel with Plan\u00adning and Surveying back\u00adgrounds to all the MMDAs and District Assemblies to support their social service pro\u00adgrammes.<\/p>\n
The focus of the 2014-15\u00a0scheme is to vigorously pur\u00adsue the Youth in Agriculture through its agriculture proj\u00adects.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the press con\u00adference, the Executive Direc\u00adtor of NSS, Alhaji Alhassan Imoro, revealed that some\u00adtimes they are criticised by sections of the public for posting young graduates to certain parts of the country.<\/p>\n
He said the deployment is heavily influenced by the government\u2019s priority devel\u00adopment programme and the demands of user agencies, as well as carrying the capacity of the regions.<\/p>\n
The breakdown for the various regions is as follows: Greater Accra, leading with a number of 22,824; Ashanti Region – 13,537; Upper East – 2,264; Volta – 3,837; Brong Ahafo – 5,993; Northern – 5,256; Eastem-5,611; West\u00adern – 4,5.90; and Central – 4,615.<\/p>\n
In all, 71,198 National Serv\u00adice personnel were deployed for the year 2014\/2015.<\/p>\n
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Source: The Finder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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