Members of this corps may be tapped by the state for literacy and civic welfare activities.

[2] In 2010 the NSRC was mandated to be accredited and mobilized for the delivery of disaster risk reduction programs and activities.

The NSTP Law made ROTC a non-compulsory training component at the tertiary level of education.

[2] Since the enactment of the NSTP Law in 2001 until 2011 - a period of 10 years, the NSRC was never implemented despite the issuance of a joint memorandum from the Department of National Defense, Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for its implementation.

Known as the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010, this law mandated that the National Service Reserve Corps be accredited and mobilized for the delivery of disaster risk reduction programs and activities.