Scouts and guides is an excellent medium of service, said chairman of Bharat Scouts and Guides Chhattisgarh Council and Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal, at the State Council meeting organised at Vrindavan hall Bairan Bazar on Wednesday. Every person should be a scout or guide, he added.
Agrawal said that through this organisation feeling of social work should be developed in schoolchildren. The scouts and guides performed better at the August 15 and January 16 functions would be awarded, he added.
State Council vice-president Dr Ajay Rao, State Chief Commissioner GSwami, Secretary B Ramesh Patnaik, State Commissioner (guides) Ushakiran Bajpai, State Commissioner (scouts) Rajesh Agrawal and all State executive members were present on the occasion.
Addressing the meeting, Brijmohan Agrawal said that besides Government schools, members should be made from private schools also. Every district should have 150 to 200 trained scouts and guides and 15-20 master trainers. He asked the council members to make more and more lifetime members. Agrawal said, “Our objective is to strengthen scouts and guides in the whole Chhattisgarh and to achieve first place in the country.”
The programme was conducted by TKS Parihar and Sangeeta Shrivastava and the vote of thanks was proposed by B Ramesh Patnaik. On the occasion, Rajesh Agrawal was unanimously nominated executive president.