The Bangladesh Scouts (
দৈনিক জবাবদিহি) 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 Scout Association, and continued as part of the
Pakistan Boy Scouts 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 successor of the
Pakistan Boy Scouts Association. Bangladesh became an independent member of the
World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1974. The organization changed its name to "Bangladesh Scouts" in 1978. The organization has 1,474,460 members as of 2015.
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- ↑ "Triennal review: Census as at 1 December 2010". World Organization of the Scout Movement. http://scout.org/en/content/download/22261/199900/file/Census.pdf.