Army Reserve students to educate public on charter
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The National Council for Peace and Order will use Army Reserve Force students as a channel that it hopes will lead to the public having a greater understanding of the new constitution before it is voted on in a national referendum.
Lt-General Werachai Indusobhana, commander of the Territorial Defence Command, Friday said the Army would stage an activity in which the some 300,000 military reserve students nationwide would garner a greater understanding of the constitution and its writing process.
Werachai outlined the programme’s three stages at its launch yesterday.
The first stage involves nationwide seminars this month and next month where the people who will teach the students under their command will themselves be educated about the charter.
That will be followed by the students being lectured on the constitution and its drafting process.
In the third stage, the students will be used as core figures in helping to explain the constitution and its drafting process to their families and communities ahead of next year’s scheduled referendum.
The 2014 provisional charter states the Constitution Drafting Commission must finish its draft by next April and send it to concerned agencies for review and it needs to be approved via a national referendum.
