Sri Lanka Scout Association

Headquarters

Colombo

Country

Sri Lanka

Founded

1912

Membership

45000

Chief Scout

Maithripala Sirisena

President

Srinath Goonaratne

Chief Commissioner

T. K. Nimal de Silva

Affiliation

World Organization of the Scout Movement

Website
www.scout.lk

The Sri Lanka Scout Association (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂ සංගමය; Tamil: இலங்கைச் சாரணர் சங்கம்), the national Scouting organization of Sri Lanka, was founded in 1912, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1953. The Ceylon Scout Council was incorporated by the Act No 13 of 1957. The coeducational Sri Lanka Scout Association has 33,709 members as of 2014.

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).

Youth between the Age 17 and 24 years are eligible to be trained as Rover Scouts.

A Rover Scout working for the B.P. Award must maintain a Record Book (not his personal Log Book) from the date he was invested as a Rover Scout for a minimum of 2 years.

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