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Last updated: 17th December 2024

Importants of Scouts

The main goal of scouting is to develop the physical, mental, moral, intellectual and social qualities of children and adolescents to become good citizens of the family, society, country and the world.

Some special features of scouting activities are noteworthy:

  • Learning to work with hands
  • Working in small-group system
  • Recognition of work through the badge system
  • Working in open areas
  • Salute with three fingers and shaking hands with the right hand
  • Wearing scout clothes, scarf and badge and always adhering to the scout law and promise


According to the rules laid down by Lord Baden Powell, the founder of the scout movement, one has to become a member of the scout movement by practicing, taking the pledge and taking initiation.

In addition, various social and developmental activities are taken up in scouting at different group and district levels. These include tree planting, vaccination, sanitation and environmental protection, fuel-efficient stoves, and the service programs of the Scouts during floods and natural disasters, which are always remembered with respect by the people of Bangladesh.

Scouts are recognized for all these activities and various trainings by being awarded various badges. The highest badges for the three branches of Scouting are: Shapla Cub, President's Scout and President's Rover Scout. Adult leaders are also given various awards for their contribution to Scouting. The highest of these is the Silver Tiger and the second highest is the Silver Hilsa.

One cannot become a Scout by joining. For this, there must be unity. Only then can one find its joy. After a few days of education, a boy or girl becomes a Scout member by reciting the oath, 20 members of the Bangladesh Institute of Glass and Ceramics Rover Scout Group have become Scout members by reciting the oath.

Every person takes an oath at some stage of life, directly or indirectly. The importance of oaths in individual, social and state life is immense. All positive oaths make life beautiful. The proper practice of oaths makes an individual's life beautiful as well as helps in building a society or taking the country to a better level.

One such story of an oath is - two and a half thousand years ago, during the reign of Pericles in Athens, Greece, every young man was made to recite the oath on the occasion of entering the age of eighteen, "The Athens that I found at the time of birth, may I leave on the earth a better Athens than this at the time of death." The story of this oath of ancient Athens is extraordinary. Because democracy, the rule of law and even civilization have been built in Greece around such self-confident oaths of young people.

The founder of the Scout movement, Sir Baden Powell, organized the first experimental Scout camp with just 20 boys on Brownsea Island in England in 1907. Since then, a unique oath has been associated with the Scout movement. Regardless of race, religion, color, or tribe, all Scouts have been taking this oath based on their own self-respect. The skillful arrangement of every word and sentence of the Scout oath has made the entire oath impeccable and universal.

Even after a hundred years, the confident pronunciation of each word of the Scout oath continues to resonate with every Scout. The oath is-

"I promise, based on my self-respect, that

* To do my duty to God and my country

* To always help others

* To obey the Scout Law

I will do my best." (Instead of the word Allah, the name of the Creator can be pronounced according to one's own religious beliefs.)

Let us take an oath - to make life beautiful, to build society and to leave the world a little better than we found it. And we will try to leave the Bangladesh Institute of Glass and Ceramics a little better than we found it.