Osei Assibey Antwi, NSS boss
The Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Osei Assibey Antwi, has disclosed that the Scheme has completed the practical training of staff of all tertiary education institutions about the new online data transmission for transferring the list of prospective national service personnel from the schools to the Scheme for postings.
The system, according to him, injects efficiency and effectiveness, as well as removes delays and mistakes that were associated with the previous process.
Speaking at the closing ceremony for the Greater Accra Regional training in Accra, the NSS Executive Director said the move is in line with the government’s agenda to eliminate human interferences in government transactions.
New system
With the new system, all officers of tertiary educational institutions in the 16 regions that deal with National Service data have been trained in batches at each regional capital.
The system whose initial introduction removed ghost names on the National Service list and saved the nation some resources would also eliminate mistakes in the provision of data, remove delays in submissions and facilitate the new vision of ‘Deployment for Employment”.
Officers of the various schools were taken through how to upload data unto the new system, including the names, ages, courses and other details of prospective service personnel at the same time unto the national system to avoid human intervention and accelerate the processing of the data for deployment.
Addressing the over 100 participants at the Greater Accra training, Mr Assibey Antwi noted that various schools had become partners of the NSS in ensuring an effective process. He therefore urged them to “collaborate with us to clean the system.”
He emphasised that in this era of internet technology, it is imperative that public sector workers ensure that all encumbrances that were associated with sending data using pen drives and other formats were done away with.
“The new system would also allow for swift and easy interaction between the schools and the Scheme, especially in the facilitation of the requests by the schools for national service personnel. This new direction is to complement the government’s employment generation drive,” he added.
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