MOP –Theme Song

Scouting friends all over the world

Create a bridge in the world to live in peace

this is the time to spread out the word

Love peace tolerance respect

bring the love and live in harmony

Whisper it deep into your heart

Start to change the world today

it’s never too late, no matter where you are

This is the time to spread out the word

Love peace tolerance respect

“We are scouts, the messengers of peace

Hand in hand let's build a better world

we are scouts, the messengers of peace

Respecting the difference and diversity"

Flag song

The flag song is written by Mr. Daya Shankar Bhatt of

Uttarakhand. The time taken to sing this flag song is 45 seconds

BHARAT SCOUT GUIDES ZANDA OOCHA SADA RAHEGA,

OOCHA SADA RAHEGA ZANDA OOCHA SADA RAHEGA.

NEELA RANG GAGAN SA VISTRIT BHATRUBHAV FAILATA,

TRIDAL KAMAL NIT TEEN PRATIGAO KI YAAD DILATA.

AUR CHAKRA KEHTA HEIN PRATIPAL AAGA KADAM BADEGA,

OOCHA SADA RAHEGA ZANDA OOCHA SADA RAHEGA.

BHARAT SCOUT GUIDES ZANDA OOCHA SADA RAHEGA.

Scout Prayer

The Prayer is written by Veer Dev Veer of Haryana. The song is

sung in 90 seconds.

DAYA KAR DAAN BHAKTI KA HAMEN PARMATMA DENA,

DAYA KARNA HAMARI AATMA MEIN SHUDHTA DENA.

HAMARE DHYAN MEIN AAO, PRABHU AAKHON MEIN BAS JAO,

ANDHERE DIL MEIN AA KAR KE PARAM JYOTI JAGA DENA.

BAHA DO PREM KI GANGA DILOMEIN PREM KA SAGAR,

HAMEIN AAPAS MEIN MILJUL KAR, PRABHU REHNA SIKHA DENA.

HAMARA KARAM HO SEVA HAMARA DHARMA HO SEVA

SADA IMAAN HO SEVA, SEVAKCHAR BANA DENA.

VATAN KE VATE JEENA, VATAN KE VATE MARNA ,

VATAN PAR JAAN FIDA KARNA PRABHU HAMKO SIKHA DENA.

DAYA KAR DAAN BHAKTI KA HAMEN PARMATMA DENA ,

DAYA KARNA HAMARI AATMA MEIN SHUDHTA DENA

National Anthem

 Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya He

Bharat Bhagya Vidhata

Punjab Sindh Gujarat Maratha

Dravida Utkala Banga

Vindhya Himachal Yamuna Ganga

Ucchala Jaladhi Taranga

Tubh Shubha Name Jage Tubh Shubha Ashisha Mange

Gahe Tubh Jaya Gata

Jan Gan Mangaldayak Jay He

Bharat Bhagya Vidhata

Jaye He ! Jaye He ! Jaye He !

Jaye,Jaye,Jaye,Jaye He

The above is the full version of the Anthem and its played time is

approximately 52 seconds. The national anthem was composed by

Rabindranath Tagore

A short version consisting of the first and last lines of the

National Anthem is also played on certain occasions. It reads as

follows

Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya He

Bharat Bhagya Vidhata

Jaye He ! Jaye He ! Jaye He !

Jaye,Jaye,Jaye,Jaye He

Daily Good Turn

A Good Turn is a volunteered kind act of good deed. Boys must be encouraged to watch for things that need to be done, and then do them without being asked. More, boys must be trained and educated into the Good Turn Habit. They must be helped to see that doing a job which they are already supposed to do, even cheerfully , ought not be classed as doing a Good Turn. Performing the regular routine duties about the home is not a Good Turn. The Good Turn is a bigger finer thing–the Good Turn is really a philosophy of living, of which Service to others becomes the key.

A good Turn is a volunteered kind act or deed. If you can stimulate a boy so that such actions become habitual, then you have made the Good Turn Philosophy work in his life. Such a process is a process of education, and will not be accomplished except by careful planning and by presenting the matter again and again under all sort of circumstances, and by yourself setting up and keeping in operation certain sorts of activities which will help the boy catch the idea and experience the thrill of the real Good Turn. Kinds of Good Turns Good Turns may be classed under different headings. Complying with the regulations and rules of the school and school grounds is doing one’s duty, and not a Good Turn. On the other hand the Scout who watches for things that need to be done, and volunteers his services to the janitor, teacher or principal, has rendered a real Good Turn. Community Good Turns include picking up banana peels from sidewalks; removing broken glass and nails, etc., from streets; removing papers and boxes from sidewalks and highways; reporting street lamps not burning; garbage nuisances, etc., on streets is but doing one’s duty. And not a Good Turn. \

Troop Good Turns mean going out of your way to help another Scout with his work, or helping him to live up to his Scout obligations. Going to another Patrol or Troop to help with signaling, first aid instruction or other Scout work, or the Scoutmaster with outside work regularly assigned, constitutes a fine Good Turn. There are Church Good Turns, and Good Turns to Animals and National Good Turns and unlimited numbers of Individual Good Turns. Most boys do not wish to speak of their individual Good Turns. In this they should be encouraged. Good Turns vary with every situation. We shall try to list and classify suggestions which may be helpful for your Troop. The important thing is to keep forever the Good Turn idea in all of your own thinking and planning, giving it definite place and time. Otherwise it will soon drift into a mere superficiality and do more harm than good. Avoid any reward for Good Turns. Say to your boys:

“Just do something to help the other fellow, and the joy of the service well done will be its own reward.” So you see the Good Turn habit has no end of avenues down which it may go. There is scarcely a day or an hour, an event or a situation where there is not an opportunity to do a Good Turn. The point is that boys must be trained to see these opportunities and to take real joy in making the most of the opportunity.

The Patrol System

 The Patrol System :

(i) A troop shall be divided into patrols. Each patrol will

have patrol corner, patrol song, patrol yell, patrol

sign, patrol cry, patrol flag.

(ii) a. Each patrol may consist of six to eight scouts

inclusive of Patrol Leader and Second.

b. Each Patrol shall bear the name of an animal/

bird chosen from Scouting For Boys in

consultation with the Patrol – in Council

and every member of the Patrol shall wear

the shoulder stripes of the Patrol on the

uniform.

(iii) Troop Leader :- One of

the Patrol Leaders with

experience of not less

than six months as a

Patrol Leader, preferably

with Dwitiya Sopan

Badge. may be appointed

as Troop Leader by the Scoutmaster in consultation

with the Court-of -Honour. He shall wear the Scout

Uniform and in addition wear two green stripes

made of wool or cotton 6 cms long and 1.5 cm wide

on either side of the membership badge on the left

pocket and Troop Leader’s Badge above Service

star worn above the left pocket of the shirt or at the

same place on Jersey. He offers active assistance to

the Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster and takes

charge of the unit in the absence of the Adult Unit

Leaders. Troop Leader’s Badge is rectangular Badge

with emblem in yellow on green background with a

yellow ring round it and three green vertical stripes

to the left of the emblem.

(iv) Assistant Troop Leader :

One of the patrol Leaders

with not less than six

months service as a Patrol

Leader, preferably with

Rover Section

Rover, Rover Crew, Rover Scout Leader and Assistant Rover Scout

Leader, Qualifications for Rover Scout Leader and Assistant Rover

Scout Leader, Uniform for Rover Scout Leader and Assistant Rover

Scout Leader, Uniform for Sea Rover Scout Leader and Assistant

Sea Rover Scout Leader. Uniform for Air Rover Scout Leader and

Assistant Air Rover Scout Leader, Senior Rover Mate, Rover Mate,

Second, Crew Council, Rover Aspirant, Pravesh, Grameen Rover,

Rover Uniform, Rover, Scheme of Advancement of a Rover, Praveen,

Rajyapuruskar, Rashtrapati Rover Award, Rover Proficiency Badges,

Rouver-in-Service, Hikes, Treks and Camps for Rovers. 55-76.

Final Educational Objectives of Scouting (Rover Section)

The Bharat Scouts and Guides’ purpose is fulfilled by providing

educating for life through all the three states of the Youth (Cub,

Scout and Rover) the Association expect that every young man who

complete the full course of the boy programme of the Association

will be able to:-

1. Make scouting a way of life.

2. Become an active and participating citizen.

3. Improve skills, vocational and otherwise to be selfdependent

& useful to others.

4. Emerge as practical person who has respect for himself and

for others and their experiences.

5. Realize that he has a responsibility in the development of

his community and undertake Community Development

Projects individually and collectively.

6. Lead a refined religious life in service of man and God/

Dharma.

7. Select in future, a right partner for a life of full understanding

& adjustment and lead a harmonious life.

8. Do all his best to protect public property.

9. Prepare himself to do his duty to country & develop love

for Universal Brotherhood i.e. peace and goodwill among

human beings.

10. Develop a positive attitude to undertake considerable

risk for others, making full use of his Rovering Skills and

Values.

11. Work for the upkeep of our National Heritage & Culture

with love for Human values.

12. Promote & participate in the developmental activities

pertaining to National priorities like National Integration,

Population Education, Conservation, Sanitation etc.

13. Become a Strategic Leader who loves to grow with the

group.

14. Have fair understanding of the World Affairs in general.

Scout Section

Scout, Scout Troop, Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster,

Qualifications for Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster, Uniform

for Scoutmaster, Assistant Scoutmaster and Lady Scout Master,

Asst. Lady Scout Master, Uniform for Sea Scoutmaster and Assistant

Sea Scoutmaster, Uniform Air Scoutmaster and Assistant Air

Scoutmaster, The Patrol System, Troop Leader, Assistant Troop

Leader, Patrol Leader, Second, Court-of-Honour, Patrol-in-Council,

Scout Pravesh, Scout Uniform, Uniform for Sea Scout, Uniform for

Air Scout, Scheme of Advancement of a Scout, Pratham Sopan,

Dwitiya Sopan, Tritiya Sopan, Rajya Puraskar, Rashtrapati Scout

Award, Scout Proficiency Badges, Hikes, Treks and Camp for Scouts.

20-54.

By the time a boy completes the full course of the Scout Programme,

he will be able to:

1. Develop his character to become healthy & efficient.

2. Accept and follow the rudiments of good citizenship.

3. Undertake practices and improve skills essential to become

self-reliant and prepare himself to use them for helping

others.

4. Undertake collective activities and challenges, which

contribute for his all-round development.

5. Be aware of his potentials and use them in service to the

community.

6. Improve his skills of observation to appreciate the wonders

of nature and develop a sense of expressing reverence

towards nature by nurturing it.

7. Make things useful for others.

8. Realise that public property is his property as well and

attempt to look after it.

9. Identify himself as an Integral part of his community and

realise his duty to country.

10. Improve future Scouting skills to undertake adventurous

activities and develop love for adventure

11. Understand our National Heritage and Culture and

determine to keep them up.

12. Undertake individual and collective practices to conserve

nature resources and prepare to educate others in this

respect.

13. Develop the qualities of a dynamic leader and participate

doing his best effectively in all leadership opportunities

made available to him.

14. Study about his country & people and contribute for the

cause of National Integration.

Cub Section

Cub, Cub Pack, Cubmaster, & Assistant Cubmaster, Qualifications

for Cubmaster and Assistant Cubmaster, uniform for Cub Master

Asst. Cubmaster, & Lady Cubmaster, Asst. Lady Cubmaster, The Six

System, Senior Sixer, Sixer Second, Sixers’ Council, Cub Instructor,

Cub, Pravesh, Cub Uniform, Scheme of Advancement of a Cub,

Pratham Charan, Dwitiya Charan, Tritiya Charan, Chaturtha Charan,

Cub Proficiency Badges, Golden Arrow, Camps for Cubs. 1-19.

Objectives of Cub Section.

By the time a boy complete the full course

of the Cub Programme, he will be able to:-

1. Develop habits which lead to good character.

2. Put in efforts of learning directed towards good citizenship.

3. Learn practical Cub skills essential to become a good Scout

and a good boy in general.

4. Undertake activities which contribute to his all round

development.

5. Do a daily Good turn.

6. Develop fascination for beauties of nature & awareness of

God/Dharma.

7. Express himself in creative skills.

8. Collect things of his interest & preserve them properly.

9. Develop a sense of respect for elders, love for youngsters in

the family & neighborhood and find ways of such expressions

with a spirit of cooperation.

10. Satisfy his needs for adventure.

11. Inculcate a feeling of appreciation for family traditions, be of

religious, social or ancestral character and make attempts to

follow them.

12. Understand the need of conserving Nature/Environment and

public properties.

13. Obey elders and follow their advice even in their absence.

14. Know about his state, people and culture.

1. Cub: - A boy who is a citizen of India and who has completed

five but not ten years of age is eligible to become a Cub.

Provided he subscribes to the Cub Promise and the Cub Law

and becomes a member of a Cub Pack.

Advancement of a Cub :

1. A Boy can be registered as a Cub Aspirant on

completion of five years of age and invested after

working for at least three months and completed the

requirements of the Pravesh test.

2. A Pravesh Cub will work at least for three months to

qualify for Pratham Charan.

3. A Pratham Charan Cub will work atleast for three

months to qualify for Dwitiya Charan.

4. A Dwitiya Charan Cub will work for at least nine

months to qualify for Tritiya Charan badge.

5. A Tritiya Charan Cub will work for atleast nine

months to qualify for ChaturthaCharan.

6. A Chaturth Chran Cub having earned totally six

proficiency badges one badge each in Tritiya Charan

and Chaturth Charan, remaining four badges to be

earned from the proficiency badge groups not earned

earlier. He may be awarded a special badge called

“Golden Arrow” before completing ten years of age.

7. For Pravesh and Pratham Charan the Cub master will

arrange for training and testing.

8. From Dwitiya Charan onwards and for Proficiency

Badges Training Counsellors will arrange testing.

SPREAD THE WORD

1. Wash your hands with soap before eating and after defecation.

2. Open defecation spreads diseases latrines use sanitary

3. Flies carry diseases—Protect your food against flies.

4. Keep the surroundings of your diking water source clean.

5. Store drinking water in clean vessels. Do not dip in dirty hands and cups.

6. Clean home promotes healthier children.

7. Good personal hygiene means better health.

8. Stagnant water breeds mosquitoes—Build a soakage pit to drain away the waste water or fill up the depression areas.

9. Smokeless chulhas reduce air contamination.

The Scout wing and The Guide wing

(1) Whenever and wherever the National Association, the State Association, the District or Divisional Association and the Local Association consists of Scouts and Guides, there shall be a Scout Wing and a Guide Wing.

(2) There shall be no common membership of boys and girls in Pack, Flock, Troop, Company, Crew, Team and Group : in other words Pack, Troop, and Crew are meant for boys, whereas Flock, Company and Team shall consist of girls only and there snail be a separate Group for Pack, Troop and Crew and a separate Group for Flock, Company and Team.

(3) Though separate, perfect co-operation, harmony and cordiality shall prevail between the Scout Wing and the Guide Wing.

(4) Training shall be separate for boys and girls at all levels : training of Commissioners may be separate or common ; training of Scouters and Guiders shall be separate except in the case of special courses, for which special permission of the Chief National Commissioner or the State Chief Commissioner as the case may be is necessary; boys and girls may, however, be brought together at Rallies and at other special functions with the permission of the concerned DCs. Exchange of Scout and Guide Instructors is also permissible with the approval of the concerned Commissioners.

Character

The Association is a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act and is a non-official organisation and is non-political, non sectarian and non-communal in character.

The Method :

The Scout/Guide Method is a system of progressive self-education through :

— A Promise and Law

— Learning by Doing.

— Membership of small groups under adult leadership involving progressive discovery and acceptance of responsibility and training towards self-government directed towards the development of character, and the acquisition of competence, self- reliance, dependability and capacities both to cooperate and to lead.

— Progressive and stimulating programmes of various activities based on the interests of the participants including games, useful skills and services to the community taking place largely in an outdoor setting 3n contact with nature.

AIMS

 (a) Definition :

The Bharat Scouts & Guides is a voluntary, nonpolitical, educational movement for young people, open to all without distinction of origin, race or creed, in accordance with the purpose, principles and method conceived by the Founder Lord Baden-Powell in 1907.

(b) Purpose :

The purpose of the Movement is to contribute to the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social, emotional and spiritual potentials as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of the local, national and international communities.

(c) Principles :

The Scout/Guide Movement is based on the following principles:

Duty to God :

Adherence to spiritual principles, loyalty to the religion that expresses them and acceptance of the duties resulting therefrom.

(Note : The word “Dharma” may be substituted for the word “God” if so desired).

Duty to Others:

— Loyalty to one’s country in harmony with the promotion of local, national and international peace, understanding, cooperation.

— Participation in the development of society with recognition and respect for the dignity of one’s fellowmen and for the integrity of the natural world.

Duty to Self :

Responsibility for the development of oneself.