Kabataan Partylist hits ROTC training fee included in Senate bill

April 27, 2023 | 4:02pm

Students and youth groups protest outside of the Senate of the Philippines in Pasay City on January 25, 2023 as the chamber hears proposals to make the Reserve Officers Training Corps mandatory again.

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MANILA, Philippines — The Kabataan Partylist on Thursday slammed a provision allowing schools to collect ROTC training fees as provided for in a Senate bill seeking to make the Reserve Officers Training Corps program compulsory again in college.

A representative of the Kabataan Partylist expressed the group’s opposition against a provision in Senate Bill 2034 that gives