The National Youth Service Corps has announced that the scheme has planned to mobilize about 220, 000 corps members in the two batches of 2015.

Earlier in the year, the NYSC announced that there will only be two batches this year as against the traditional three batches. Batch A will hold in May 2015 and Batch B in September 2015. The Scheme revealed that the rationale behind the decision was to ensure the protection of corps members.

By calculation, this will mean the there will be an average of 110, 000 corps members per batch. This means there’ll be an average of 2,972 corps members per state, a number that clearly exceeds the carrying capacity of most NYSC camps.

In another development, the NYSC through her Director of Planning Research and Statistics (DPRS) have disclosed that the Scheme will likely operate two streams per batch during the 2015 Mobilization exercise.

This decision is based on the fact that the number of corps members to be mobilized in 2015 are expected to exceed the handling capacity of most orientation camps.

The disclosure came during a tweetmeet with the Director on 27th January 2015. While answering other questions, the DPRS also stated that as many corps members as possible will be accommodated in 2015 to make up for the non-existence of Batch C and the postponement of Batch A 2015 to May.

With the dual batch method in place, each orientation camp is expected to carry about 1486 corps members per stream in 2015.

Courtesy: Kopastales.com
Source: http://kopastales.com/nysc-may-have-two-streams-per-batch-in-2015-meetnysc/

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