Purpose of the Scout Movement

The purpose of the Scout movement is "To contribute to the development of young people in achieveing their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentials as individuals, as responsible citizens and members of their local, national and international communities" .

Principles of the Scout Movement

The Scout movement is based on three broad principles: "Duty to God ","Duty to others" and "Duty to self".

Scout Method

The Scout method is defined as a system of progressive self education through:

1. A Promise and law.
2. Learning by doing.
3. Membership of small groups.
4. Progressive and stimulating programmes.
   

Overview

Bangladesh Scouts has undertaken various measures to strengthen its organizational status for its very existence as a great youth movement in the country. The government of Bangladesh has been extending promotional, financial and administrative support towards Bangladesh Scouts. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education treat Bangladesh Scouts as a statutory body of the Ministry. Scouting in the educational institutions has been made compulsory. Bangladesh Scouts has already involved government officers at Divisional, District and Upazilla levels. Educational departments of all tiers are a part of the scout organization.

Scouting in Bangladesh is mostly educational institution based. Community based open scout troops are being flourished at all tiers of the organizations.

For the proper implementation of Scout Programme and Activities Bangladesh Scouts has divided the whole country into 11 (eleven) Regions, namely: Dhaka Region, Rajshahi Region, Khulna Region, Barisal Region, Chittagong Region, Comilla Region, Sylhet Regions, Rover Region, Railway Region, Sea Region and Air Region. Region’s main source of income comes from the subscription raised by the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary education from the students. We also realize Registration fees from each and every member, both youth and adults on the basis of the census reports given by the Regional Scouts.

Strategic Planning Workshops are held periodically to plan and implement strategic plan of Bangladesh Scouts for steady growth of the organization. The last workshop of this kind was held in April 2006 under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Region.

In spite of the government grant, Bangladesh scouts has its own sources of income. The main source of our income comes from the 15-storied National Headquarters Building. We are going to construct another 20 storied Building at the side of the present building to generate fund to cope with the rising financial pressure in the form of bulk expenditure for the smooth running of the organization.

Our main target is to involve each and every youth of the country into the fold of scouting. Our growth plan envisages penetration of more youth into the movement so that each and every boy and girl can get the opportunity to contribute his best to the development of himself/ herself and of the country as a whole.

The Scout census of Bangladesh Scouts for this year 2005 is 9,48,097.

Organizational Structure:

Membership Growth

The most important area of Bangladesh Scouts is its membership growth. The plan envisages a substantial growth in the existing units including extension of Scouting to new areas where there is no Scouting Unit at present. Overall plan envisages growth in membership from almost half million to one million by 2002.

After achieving this goal, Bangladesh Scouts has again set a new goal of increasing membership from 1 million to 1.5 million by the year 2013. This will make Bangladesh Scouts one of the fastest growing and most dynamic Scout Organizations within the Asia-Pacific Region.

Bangladesh Scouts
Annual Census of the year-2006