Bhutan Scouts Association

Bhutan Scouts Association
འབྲུག་ཨིསི་ཀའུཊ་ཚོགས་པ་
CountryBhutan
Founded1970
Membership18,170
PresidentLyonpo Thakur Singh Powdyel
Chief CommissionerChencho Dorji
AffiliationWorld Organization of the Scout Movement
Website
bhutanscouts.bt
 Scouting portal

The Bhutan Scouts Association, also known as Druk Scout Tshogpa (Dzongkha:འབྲུག་ཨིསི་ཀའུཊ་ཚོགས་པ་), is a coeducational organization that is part of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.[1] As of 2021, it has a membership of 76,876 members.[2] The association is committed to the education of young people through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law, with the aim of building a better world where individuals are self-fulfilled and play a constructive role in society.[1]

The membership badge of Bhutan Scout Tshogpa incorporates the color scheme of the flag of Bhutan, and the fleur-de-lis is wrapped in a khata, the traditional ceremonial scarf. The Scout Motto in Dzongkha is གྲ་འགྲིག་འབད་ གྲ་འགྲིག་འབད་,Dra drig Bay[needs IPA].

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  2. ^ "WOSM's Membership Census | Scout Learning Zone". learn.scout.org. Retrieved 2023-11-23.

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