Before the delivery of university degrees, students must compulsorily collect garbage or perform other social services, as established by a bill submitted to the Chamber of Deputies.
“No college, public school or public or private university may grant a bachelor’s degree or university degree, postgraduate degree, master’s degree, doctorate or degree specialty, without the graduate having previously complied with this law,” the initiative states in its article six paragraph 2.
Students must provide compulsory social service in reforestation, cleaning and garbage collection activities, or other social works in the places established by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, within the municipality and province of their residence or in the closest one. this.
According to the project’s proponents, deputies Elías Wessin Chávez, Miguel Ángel de los Santos and Miguel Bogaert, its objective is to regulate and establish the social services to which all students must submit to opt for a bachelor’s, graduate or postgraduate degree. .
The provisions of this law will be applicable throughout the national territory and cover Dominicans who have completed their studies, whether in secondary, university or postgraduate education, in any science.
Article 4 states that the execution and enforcement of this law would be chaired by the Ministry of Education and made up of the National Council for Education, Science and Technology, the president of the Association of University Rectors, a member of the Central Electoral Board, the Ombudsman and the Ministry of the Environment.
The proposal establishes that any public or private official who, in breach of or in violation of this law, issues titles to any of those described above will be punished with a fine equivalent to 100 minimum wages in the public sector.
While in case of recidivism, it will be ordered in accordance with the provisions of article 50 of Law number 139-01 on Higher Education, Science and Technology.
The JCE
In its articles number 3, it is stated that compulsory social service: consists of the obligation that every Dominican has to be instructed in social and civic education, the teaching of the Constitution, the fundamental rights and guarantees, to ensure the strengthening and quality of democracy, and provide a social service from the age of sixteen, before the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to participate as a member of a college or elected precinct official.
While article 8 states that inconclusive Dominicans, if they have not reached at least the average level of basic education, once they have acquired the first identity and electoral card, they must also abide by the provisions of literal A of article 3.
In this regard, it adds that the JCE will develop a monitoring program or system to certify that citizens have complied with this law.
