The 52nd Bangladesh Scouts Day will be observed throughout the country on Monday.
This year’s theme of the day is “Smart Scouting, Smart Citizen”.
In his message, the President Mohammed Shahabuddin said scouting has immense importance as a co-curricular activity alongside formal education. “Scouting helps children and adolescents become good citizens by teaching with joy,” he said. The president said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced 'Vision 2041' to make Bangladesh a developed-prosperous-smart scouting country by 2041.
To achieve this goal, now it is essential to build the youths as honest, ideal, smart citizens through smart scouting, he said.
The president called upon scout leaders to play more effective role in transforming the country into a developed-prosperous-smart Bangladesh by further expanding and accelerating the scout movement. The premier in her message said the Awami League government is determined to develop children, adolescents and youths as skilled human resources equipped with technological knowledge.
“Bangladesh Scouts are carrying out commendable works to develop honest, competent, efficient and ideal citizens through scouting as co-curricular activities alongside conventional education,” she said. The prime minister hoped that every member of Bangladesh Scouts would play an important role in building a hunger-poverty-free, developed-prosperous 'Golden Bangladesh' as dreamt by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which means a knowledge-based Smart Bangladesh.
She said the greatest Bengali of all time, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave official recognition to Bangladesh Scouts on September 11, 1972 through promulgation of an ordinance.