Boy Scouts of Ceylon

Sri Lanka Scout Association
Headquarters	Colombo
Country	Sri Lanka
Founded	1912
Membership	45000
Chief Scout	Maithripala Sirisena
President	Srinath Goonaratne
Chief Commissioner	Mr.Meril Gunatilaka
Affiliation	World Organization of the Scout Movement
Website www.scout.lk

The Sri Lanka Scout Association (Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂ සංගමය; Tamil: இலங்கைச் சாரணர் சங்கம்), is a Scouting organization in Sri Lanka operated by the Ceylon Scout Council. The Ceylon Scout Council is a corporation formed by Act No 13 of 1957. The association became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1953. The coeducational Sri Lanka Scout Association has 33,709 members as of 2014. in 2016 the year that the National Organization reached 104 years the Scouting Population in Sri Lanka had increased to 55,078 the growth taking place against the year 2015 was 29% which was a great achievement by the SLSA.

There are various community development projects carried out in cooperation with the government organizations, United Nations and other service organizations.

Scouting has been introduced into the prisons. It has spread to other institutions such as certified schools. There are also Scout units for handicapped boys such as the blind and deaf and for boys in leprosy hospitals.

National Jamboree is organizing by National HQ.

Gerald Fernando served as the International Boy Scout Commissioner for the Far East in the 1950s until his death in 1961.

Senator E. W. Kannangara served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1960 until 1961.

In 1973, Kingsley C. Dassanaike was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.

Programme Commissioner of Sri Lanka Scout Association is Rohan Wirasekara (2013 - 2017).

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