The East Coast Railway (ECoR) is going to organise the six-day 18th All India Railway Bharat Scouts and Guides Jamborette here from January 6 to 11, where more than 2,500 railway Bharat scouts and guides volunteers from 16 zonal railways all over the country will participate.
During the camp, scouts and guides, rovers and rangers, leaders and organisers would perform their scouting skills in the field of first aid, pioneering, compass, mapping and backwoodsman cooking etc along with social awareness activities, disaster management, human chain and route march on social awareness and pageant show will be performed.
ECoR Bharat Scouts and Guides State Chief Commissioner Manju Ray said for the first time the ECoR is organising this mega event in the city where volunteers would learn and display their activities during any crisis and also exchange their culture, language, tradition, food habits, folklore and traditional dress along with social awareness.
The volunteers would also conduct social awareness programmes through human chain, route march, swachh bharat skitsand street plays, including flash mob to educate the community. Cultural programmes like traditional folk dances of different parts of the country would also be performed, added Ray.
In the inaugural programme, Railway Board Member Staff DK Gayen would grace as chief guest and Governor SC Jamir would grace as chief guest in the concluding ceremony.