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Bharat
Scout & Guide
North
Local Association, Mysore
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The Bharat Scouts & Guides is a voluntary
non-political educational Movement for young people, open to all without distinction of origin, race or creed, in accordance
with the purpose, principle and method conceived by the founder Lord Baden-Powell in 1907.
The Purpose of the Movements
is to contribute to the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentials
as individuals, as responsible citizen and as members of the local, national and international Communities.
The Bharat scouts and Guides, North Local Associations, Mysore Started in the year
1972. It is the oldest Association in the Mysore District.
Scouting / Guiding in India before 1950:
The
first Scout Troop in India, consisting of Indian Boys, was
formed by a Scottish Missionary, in the Central Provinces (present Madhya Pradesh) in 1908. However, the troop was disbanded
in 1910. The common confirmed date, however, for the start of Scouting in India is 1909, when three troops for British boys
were started at Bangalore, Kirkee and Jabalpur.
This list of three Scout Troops increased to nine different
Boy Scout Organisations in early 1911 in Shimla, Calcutta (present Kolkata), Jabalpur, Allahabad, Bangalore, Poona, Kirkee,
Saidpur and Madras (present Chennai).
Efforts were made to merge all the Boy Scouts Organisations with the help and
assistance of Lord Baden Powell in 1921. These efforts were partly successful. An endeavor was again made in 1937.
The Girl Guide movement got a start in India at Jabalpur (M.P.)
In 1911. It expanded enormously. There were about 50 girl guide companies with a membership of over 1200 by 1915. There companies
were directly registered with imperial scout headquarters, London, like other Scout organisation. But an All India Girl Guides
Association was formed in 1916. Girl Guiding was restricted to British Girls till 1916.
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Mission Statement
The mission of Scouting is to contribute
to the education of young people, through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law to help build a better world where
people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society.
This is achieved by:
• involving them throughout their
formative years in a non-formal educational process
• using a specific method that makes
each individual the principal agent in his or her
development as a self-reliant, supportive, responsible and
committed person
• assisting them to establish a value system based upon spiritual,
social and personal
principles as expressed in the Promise and Law.
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