NS 3.0 to exclude school-going teens, assures defence minister

By MARTIN CARVALHO, ARFA YUNUS and And BENJAMIN LEE

KUALA LUMPUR: The proposed National Service Training Programme (NS) 3.0 will not involve school-going children, says Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.

The Defence Minister's assurance came after considering the parents' worries that school-going teens would have to undergo harsh military-like training when the programme was eventually rolled out.

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