Bharat Scouts & Guides celebrates Foundation Day

Scouts and Guides were awarded with meritorious certificates by dignitaries at Gandhi Nagar on Sunday.
Scouts and Guides were awarded with meritorious certificates by dignitaries at Gandhi Nagar on Sunday.

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 7: The J&K State Bharat Scouts and Guides Jammu celebrated its Foundation Day /Flag Day at SHQ Gandhi Nagar, here today.
About 80 Scouts/Guides, Scouters/Guiders and heads of various institutions participated. ID Soni, former State Commissioner was chief guest of the event, while Principal Sri Guru Gobind Singh Higher Secondary School Kunjwani, Mtr Nasreen Khan, Secretary cum Administrative Officer, MM Joshi, J&K Commissioner Adult Resource(S), Prabha Jain, former Joint J&K Commissioner (Guides), Dr Renu Nanda, J&K Commissioner HL Dogra, treasurer were the guests of honour.
Matri Jain, J&K Commissioner (G) welcomed all the dignitaries, the guests, and the Scouts/Guides and also gave a brief importance of this Day and said that it was a day of introspection for all connected with the movement.
“Dr Sri Ram Memorial Awards were given away to the year’s best Scout Masters/Guide Captains named Uma Jamwal, Mudasir Ahmad Khan, Satish Chadha and Krishna, besides Principal Guru Gobind Singh
School and Principal Anand Vidya Kander Jammu were also honoured with Thanks Badge for their kind and time to time support to this noble movement by the chief guest.
RP Kotwal, Usha Chunni, MM Sharma, RC Vaid, PL Dubey, Manjeet Kour, Jyoti, Ashok Sharma, Neelam Gupta, KL Sharma, Harvinder Kour, Kanchan Sharma, Jamat Ali Shah, Neeru Talwar and Principals of various Schools were part of the event.
The chief guest appreciated the steps being taken by this movement to spread the message of the noble movement to every corner of the J&K UT. He said that this movement is trying to cultivate basic values such as commitment, conviction, character, courtesy and cheerfulness in the right earnestness in the young Scouts & Guides which is the need of the hour.
The whole programme was conducted under the directions of Mtr Nasreen Khan, J&K Secretary cum Administrative Officer, J&K UT Bharat Scouts and Guides and HL Dogra presented the vote of thanks, while the programme was compared by Harvinder Kour.