About Rovers and Rangers

The Rovers and Rangers is senior students’ wing- having students enrolled in higher education- of the global Scouts and Guides movement. In the institutions of higher education, the Rovers crews have boys and the Rangers teams have girls as the volunteer members.
The Scouts and Guides movement is a voluntary, non-political, educational movement for young people, open to all without distinction of origin, race or creed, in accordance with the purpose, principles and methods conceived by the founder Lord Smith Baden-Powell in 1907. The voluntary character of Scouting and Guiding emphasizes the fact that members adhere to it by their own free will and because they accept the fundamentals of the Movement.
Bharat Scouts and Guides is a Society duly registered under Societies Registrations Act, 1860. It is totally voluntary, non-political and secular Organization. The National Headquarters of the Bharat Scouts and Guides functioned from Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi, until 1963. Thereafter, it shifted to its own building and is functioning from Lakshmi Mazumdar Bhawan , 16, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi – 110002. The National Headquarters building was inaugurated in the year 1963 by the then Vice President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain.
Kulbhaskar Ashram Post Graduate College, Prayagraj have started Rovers and Rangers unit from Academic year 2022-23
Motto “Service”
Purpose, Principles and Methods of Rovers and Rangers/Bharat Scouts and Guides
The purpose of the Rovers and Rangers/Scouts and Guides movement is to contribute to the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual potentials as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of the local, national and international communities. It is also important to point out that the concept of responsible citizenship, which is one of the fundamental goals of Rovers and Rangers/ Scouts and Guides movement must be understood in a broad context. A person is, first and foremost, an individual. This individual is integrated into his or her community, which is part of a wider political structures e.g. Districts and States- the total expression of which is the sovereign state or country. A responsible citizen must be aware of his or her rights and obligations in relation to the various communities to which he or she belongs.
Principles
The principles are the fundamental laws and beliefs which must be observed when achieving the purpose. They represent a code of conduct which characterises all members of the movement.
Rovers and Rangers/Scouts and Guides movement is based upon three broad principles which represent its fundamental laws and beliefs. They are known as: “Duty to God”, “Duty to Others” and “Duty to Self”.
(1.) Duty to God: Adherence to spiritual principles, loyalty to the religion that expresses them and acceptance of the duties resulting therefrom.
(2.) Duty to Others: Loyalty to one’s country in harmony of local, national and international peace, understanding, and co-operation. This amounts to participation in the development of the society with recognition and respect for the dignity of one’s fellowmen and for the integrity of the natural world.
Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognizes justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which leads our country into comradeship with the other nations of the world.
The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our own borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life; so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours. (3.) Duty to Self: Responsibility for the development of a person should assume responsibility for the development of one’s own capacities. This is fully in harmony with the educational purpose of the Rangers and Rovers/Scout and Guides movement whose aim is to assist the young persons in the full development of their potentials – a process which has been called the “unfolding” of the personality.
Method
The “method” is a system of progressive self- education through:
(1.) Promise and law.
(2.) Learning by doing.
(3.) Membership of small groups under adult leadership involving progressive discovery and acceptance of responsibility and training towards self- government directed towards the development of character, and the acquisition of competence, self-reliance, dependability and capacities to co-operate and to lead.
Progressive and stimulating programs of various activities based on the interests of the participants including games, useful skills and services to the community taking place largely in an outdoor setting in contact with nature.
Scheme of Awards, Certificate and Badges of Rovers and Rangers:
Any boy or girl student in the age group of 15 to 25 years and enrolled as a regular student in a higher education institution (HEI) can be admitted as a Rover (for boys) or Ranger (for girls) and has to pass through the following sequential stages for completing the full course of this co- curricular activity:
• Pravesh- A Rover or Ranger aspirant has to work for 03 months to complete the syllabus before investiture and being called Pravesh Rover or Ranger.
• Pratham sopan – A scout or guide must work for at least six months to qualify.
• Dwitiya sopan – A scout or guide must work for at least six months to qualify.
• Tritiya sopan – A scout or guide must work for atleast nine months to qualify .
• Rajya puraskar – A scout or guide must work for at least twelve months to qualify .
• Rashtrapati puraskar – A scout or guide must work for at least twelve months to qualify and appear for the award test .
• After achieving the Rashtrapati Certificate, a Rover/Ranger can work for different proficiency badges upto the age of 25 years as a regular student
• UP Rastrapati Puraskar Competition- A Rover/Ranger can also participate in Up Rashtrapati Award Competition, with its syllabus based on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with his or her unit.
College Unit of the Rovers and Rangers
The total sanctioned strength of the Rovers Crew, having boys, and Rangers Team having girls, is 24 each. Every year a five- day training camp for ‘Pravesh’ and ‘Nipun’ is organised in the College in which the Rovers and Rangers learn and demonstrate their skills at tent pitching, providing first aid to the injured, tying different types of knots to overcome difficult situations, cooking in camps, holding camp fires etc. and participate in various competitions. On the fifth and closing day of the annual camp, the “Deeksha Sanskaar”, cultural events and prize distribution ceremony are organized. In the end, a ‘Sarva Dharma Praarthhanaa’ is performed.
Apart from participation in the training camp, the Rovers and Rangers perform various duties in the events organized in the College throughout the year including on Independence Day, Republic Day and Annual Sports. They participate in various other social activities cleanliness drives and tree plantation programs in the College campus.