Bangladesh Scouts History

The Bangladesh Scouts (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ স্কাউটস]) is the national Scouting organization of Bangladesh. Scouting was founded in 1914 in East Bengal now Bangladesh as part of the British Indian branch of The Scouts Association and continued as part of the Pakistan Boy Scout Association until the country's divided sections split in 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Following its independence, in 1972, the Bangladesh Boy Scout Association was officially formed as the successor of the Pakistan Boy Scouts Association. Bangladesh became independent of the World Organization of Scout Movement in 1974. The organization changed its name to "Bangladesh Scouts" in 1978. The organization has 1,474,460 members as of 2015.