Principles :

The movement is based on the following principles :

• Duty to God
• Duty to Others
• Duty to Self

The Method :

The Scout / Guide Method is a system of progressive self education through :

• A promise and law
• Learning by doing
• Membership of small group under adult leadership involving progressive discovery and acceptance of responsibility of training towards the development of character, self reliance and capacities to cooperate and to local.

Scouting in India :

The first scout troop in India consisting entirely of Anglo-Indian Boys was formed by a Scottish missionary, in the then central province in 1908. However the troop was disbanded in 1910. Thereafter nine different scout troops comprising British & Anglo-Indian boys came up in early 1911 in Shimla, Calcutta, Jabalpur, Allahabad, Banglore, Poona, Kirkee, Saidpus and Madras. Efforts to induct Indian Boys to scouts movement did not materialize till Montague & Chelmsford appeared on the scene a secretary of the state of India and viceroy of India in 1917. After Independence of India the final merger of the Boy Scouts Association and the Hindustan Scout association took place on 7th Nov. 1950 under the name of "The Bharat Scouts and Guide".