The State Headquarter Commissioner of the Uttarakhand Bharat Scouts and Guides, Rajeev Sharma will be a part of the thirteen member Indian delegation participating in the prestigious 41st World Scout Conference taking place at Baku in Azerbaijan from of August 14 to 18 this year.
A native of Dangi village in Kaljikhal block of Pauri district in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, Rajeev Sharma has been into the scouting movement in the state for the past two decades. Strictly adhering to the spirit of Once Scout Always Scout, the State headquarter commissioner of Uttarakhand Bharat Scouts and Guides, Rajeev Sharma has a long history of participating in major scouting events across the globe. He was a participant in the 21st World Scout Jamboree at Chelmsford England in 2007. He had also attended the 39th World Scouts Conference at Brazil from January 10 to 14 in 2011, as part of the Indian delegation. Sharma also attended the Asia Pacific Scouts Conference at Dhaka in Bangladesh from November 24 to 29 in 2012. A few years back also participated in the 40th World Scout Conference at Slovenia in Europe in 2014.
The chief national commissioner of Bharat Scouts and Guides and the additional chief secretary of Haryana Government, KK Khandelwal will be leading the Indian contingent which includes former bureaucrats and the international commissioner of Bharat Scouts and Guides, Mohammed Ali Khalid and former chief national commissioner BI Nagralaya as its prominent members. The theme of the Baku conference is “Together for Positive Change”.
It is pertinent to mention here that scouting started with Boys’ Scouts Movement in 1907 with the first experimental scouting camp by a retired Army General lord Baden Powell, who started the movement in England with a team of twenty boys. Since then scouting has become quite popular all over the world.