SCOUT SECTION - PRAVESH REQUIREMENTS

Existing Syllabus Suggested Syllabus/ Activity from Home

1. (i) Have brief information of the origin of Scouting As it is
along with definition, purpose principles and method
of the Bharat Scouts and Guides.

(ii) A Scout Aspirant must have holistic knowledge of

the movement.

2. Know the Scout Promise, Law & Motto.

3. Have knowledge about the Scout, Sign, Salute and

left hand shake and be able to demonstrate.

4. Render daily good turn at home and maintain a

diary at least for a month.

5. Know the parts of Scout Uniform and how to wear

it correctly.

6. Know the composition and significance of the

National Flag, the Bharat Scouts & Guides Flag and
the World Scout Flag and Flag Etiquette.

7. Sing correctly National Anthem, BSG Prayer and

BSG Flag Song. Know about the composer, duration
and meaning of the song.

8. Attend at least four Troop Meetings. 8. This can be substituted with Zoom
Meetings/Whatsapp Group/ Phone Calls and can
share individual activity at home.

9. Undertake a 4 hour purposeful outing with his

9. Make a report on your favourite places in your
Patrol
locality.
 TESTS FOR PRATHAM SOPAN

Existing Syllabus Suggested Online Syllabus

1. LOOKING AFTER YOURSELF: 1. LOOKING AFTER YOURSELF:

a) Be able to tell correctly “your duties at As it is

home”.
b) Be able to make your bed.
c) Know the health rules regarding personal
cleanliness.
d) Learn B.P. Six exercises and practice Yoga/
Asana /Surya Namashkar.

e) Stitch a button.
f) Clean / Polish canvas/ leather shoes.

g) Make a personal First Aid kit and know its

contents.

h) Should know the Definition and Golden rules

of First Aid

2. DISCIPLINE : 2. DISCIPLINE :
a) Learn about your Patrol, its Flag, Yell, Song, a) Learn about your Patrol, its Flag, Yell, Song,
Patrol Corner, Patrol Call or Cry and participate Patrol Corner, Patrol Call or Cry and
in Patrol in Council participate in Patrol in Council can be
substituted by participating in virtual Meeting.

b) Learn & practice Hand & Whistle Signals. As it is

c) Foot Drill: Savdhan, Vishram, Aramse, As it is

Dahiney, Bayen&Pichey Mur.

d) Participate in a Troop & Patrol game. d) Participate in a indoor game with your family.

3. ROPE WORK : 3. ROPE WORK :

 a) Whip the end of a rope. As it is
b) Tie & demonstrate the use of the following
knots: Reef knot, Sheet Bend, Clove Hitch,
Bowline, Sheep Shank, Fisherman Knot, Round
Turn & Two Half Hitches.
c) Tie and demonstrate Sheer Lashing Mark I
and Mark II.
d) Make a gadget or handicraft useful at home. As it is

4. SERVICE : 4. SERVICE : Can be substituted as:

a) Undertake a Troop Service Project in your a) Prepare 10 Mask at home with the help
School or Scout Headquarters under the of your family members and provide to Unit
guidance of your Scout Master. Leader.

b) Deal with simple Cuts, Burns & Bleeding from b) Know how to deal with simple Cuts, Burns
the nose. & Bleeding from the nose.

c) Undertake household responsibilities like

c) As it is
cooking, water storage, hospitality, cleanliness
etc. with the help of parents for a week.

d) Participate in the following activities:

d) Participate in the following activities-Maybe
substituted with the following activities:
(i) Discuss with your Scout Master and render
some service involving any one of the points of
(i) Provide awareness on how to prevent
spread of COVID-19 among your family and
Scout Law and submit a report to your Scout
prepare posters, hand-bills in your regional
Master.
language and paste at public place/ front
wall of your house.

(ii) Undertake a nature study project in (ii) Gather information on the services
consultation with your Patrol Leader and rendered by the various scouts/guides units
submit the report within ten days. in the district during the COVID Pandemic

OR
Visit a Village Panchayat Samiti/ Block
Development/Municipality/ Municipal
Corporation office and learn about the services
rendered by one such public organization and
submit a report to your Scout Master within ten
days.
5. COMMUNICATION :
5. COMMUNICATION : Be able to use the Mobile Phone and be
Be able to use the PCO & Mobile Phone and be acquainted with some of the facilities available
acquainted with some of the facilities available on it.
on it.
6. OUT OF DOORS : Maybe substituted with the
6. OUT OF DOORS : following activities:
a) Learn woodcraft sign and create a trail for
a) Know the simple wood crafts signs & follow a your family.
trail with his patrol of not less than half a kilo
metre. b) Learn Road Safety Rules for pedestrians.

b) Know & practice Road Safety Rules for

pedestrians. c) Plant Flower Saplings/Trees or do
gardening at home.
c) Participate in a Nature Study Trail

TESTS FOR DWITYA SOPAN

Existing Syllabus Suggested Online Syllabus

(1) Pioneering : (1) Pioneering :
a) Demonstrate Timber hitch, Rolling hitch, (a) As it is
Marline spike /Lever hitch & Figure of Eight
knot and their use.
b) Tie the following lashings and know their (b) As it is
uses: Square and Figure of Eight.
(c) Learn safety rules of hand axe or chopper
c) Demonstrate the uses of hand axe or chopper
and know how to keep them sharp.
and know the safety rules and how to keep
them sharp.
d) Demonstrate the use, safety and sharpening
(d) As it is
of a dagger or a pen knife and the use of a
screw driver, pliers and hammer.

(2) Fire : (2) Fire : May be substituted as:

a. Know different types of fire used in camping/ a. As it is
outing.
b. Exempted
b. Lay and light a wood fire in the open with not
more than two match sticks
(3) COOKING :
(3) COOKING :
a) As it is
a) Know the working & maintenance of
kerosene, pressure stove or a Gas stove.

b) Cook in the open two simple dishes enough b) Cook in your kitchen (at home) two
for two persons & make tea/coffee. simple dishes enough for two persons &
make tea/coffee.

c) Know the safety precautions in case of a gas c) As it is

leak.
4) COMPASS & MAP :
(4) COMPASS & MAP :
a) As it is
a) Know the sixteen points of a compass.
b) As it is
b) Be able to find North by at least two
constellations c) As it is
c) Using a Compass know how to find the
bearing of various objects from your position.
d) Follow a trail laid out using compass bearing d) Prepare a trail for your family using
& distances. compass/protector & distances
e) Know the terms: Scale, Direction, e) As it is
Conventional signs, Contours & Grid Reference.
f) Able to read a tourist map
f) Be able to use a tourist map
5. FIRST - AID :
5. FIRST - AID : a) As it is
a) Have knowledge about wounds and know
how to deal with Bleeding, Burns and Scalds,
Sprains, Stings & Bites
b) Demonstrate the use of Roller bandages. b) As it is

c) Demonstrate the use of a Triangular Bandage c) As it is

for the Head, Hand, Knee, Foot, Ankle and
fracture of Arm.
d) Improvise a stretcher d) As it is

6 Estimation :
(i) With the help of improvised apparatus, (i) With the help of improvised apparatus,
estimate two distances/widths of not more estimate two distances/widths.
than 100 metres but not less than 30 metres.
(ii) Know the length of your stride/Pace and
(ii) As it is
using this, estimate the distance travelled.

(7) OUT OF DOORS : 7) OUT OF DOORS : May be substituted as:

a) Participate in a Troop Wide Game. a) Practice Yoga/Aerobics/Surya-Namaskar at
home

b) Participate in Virtual Camp-fire and present a

b) Participate in a Troop Campfire & know at patriotic song, dance, skit, yell, poem etc.
least two folk/patriotic songs & participate in a
Patrol skit.

c) Know Road Safety Rules for vehicles.

c) Know & practice Road Safety Rules for
vehicles.

d) Know how to ride a bicycle. d) Prepare homemade 10 Mask and provide to

Unit Leader
e) Visit a factory in the neighbourhood of
schools/colleges/residence to understand the e) Demonstrate hand wash procedure as
prescribed by UNICEF for prevention of COVID.
manufacturing process of various products and
also to respect the dignity of labour.

8. SERVICE : 8. SERVICE : May be substituted as:

Complete any one of the following : Complete any one of the following :
a) Undertake a development Project in your a) Teach atleast 10 neighbours how to wash
school in consultation with the head of the hands or how to dispose -off used mask.
institution.
b) Participate in a Social Service Camp/Camps b) Learn on how to create awareness on COVID-
19 protection
covering at least for a month.
c) Serve in community fair or Mela including c) Register on IGOT as BSG member and get the
preparatory and post event assignments of certificate of basic of COVID
Mela/fair.
d) Participate in an Anti-Litter Campaign with d) Complete Entry level of plastic tide turner by
your Patrol and help to clean up an area around registering on www.tide-turners.org
your school or headquarters.
e) Demonstrate the 3R’s of Conservation: e) As it is
Reduce, Recycle & Reuse.

f) To form and participate in Self Help Groups. f) Prepare posters/hand-bills on prevention of

COVID and paste it in the public places/ front
wall of your house.

g) Such other sustained activities where Scout g) Use waste material to make dustbin to keep
skills are made use of. your surroundings clean, decorate it also.

9. SENSE TRAINING : 9. SENSE TRAINING : No Change

Know and play the following Kim’s games :
Observation Game. Taste Games, Sound
Games. Smelling Games, Touch Games
10. Qualify for two from the following 10. As it is
Proficiency Badges:
(i) Cook
(ii) Debator
(iii) Friend to Animals
(iv) Gardener
(v) Handyman
(vi) Cyclist
(vii) Launder
(viii) Reader
(ix) Hospital man
11. DISCIPLINE: To be substituted as:
11. DISCIPLINE: a) Exempted
a) Know the various Troop Formations. b) Practice simple drill at home
b) Be able to march three deep with your Troop
smartly & in good order. Follow drill commands
during marching. c) Learn Prayer of your faith and belief at home
c) Participate in four All Faiths Prayer meetings with the support of your parents.
in your Troop
12. COMMUNICATION : As it is
12. COMMUNICATION :
a) Use a computer and know the advantages
and disadvantages of mobile phone, internet
and their applications in the development of
the country.
b) Know how to use the internet & access the
website of the Bharat Scouts & Guides. 13. PATRIOTISM : As it is
13. PATRIOTISM :
Collect information on our heritage and culture
and prepare a log Sea Scout:

TESTS FOR TRITYA SOPAN

Existing Syllabus Suggested Online Syllabus

1. PIONEERING : 1. PIONEERING :
a) Tie & know the use of the following: (a) to (c) As it is
Fireman’s Chair Knot, Man Harness Knot,
Bowline on a bite, Draw Hitch.
b) Tie & demonstrate the use of Diagonal
Lashing
c) Use another method of whipping other than
the one used in PrathamSopan.
d) Make a Flag Mast of at least three staves
with your Patrol and demonstrate Flag Break. d) Make a Flag Mast of at least two staves at
home and describe in your log book.
e) Make a temporary shelter for yourself
e) As it is
f) Know any one method of Splicing: Eye/ Back/ f) As it is
Short

2. (I) SWIMMING : 2. (I) SWIMMING : Exempted

(a) Swim fifty metres.
(b) Know the safety rules of swimming and
(c) Know how to deal with cramps.
OR
(II) Earn any one of the following Proficiency
(II) Earn any one of the following Proficiency
Badges: Badges not earned earlier:
(i) Yoga
(i) Athlete (ii) Camel man (iii) Climber (iv)
(ii) Cook
Gymnast (v) Hiker (vi) Games Leader (vii) Yoga
(viii) Cyclist (iii) Debator
(iv) Friend to Animals
(v) Gardener
(vi) Launder
(vii) Reader

3. ESTIMATION : 3. ESTIMATION :
Be able to estimate height, depth, widths, Be able to estimate height, widths, numbers &
weights using any methods of estimation at
numbers & weights using recognized methods
home.
of estimation.

4. FIRST - AID :
4. FIRST - AID :
a) As it is
a) Know how to deal with emergency situations
such as Drowning, Electric Shock, General
Shock, Automobile Accidents and Human Being
caught in fire.
b) Learn how to treat Choking.
b) Treat Choking.
c) Deal with simple fracture of collar Bone,
c) Learn how to treat simple fracture of collar
Upper arm, Fore arm, Hip & Lower leg.
Bone, Upper arm, Fore arm, Hip & Lower leg.
d) Treat for Heat Stroke and Sun Stroke
d) Learn how to treat for Heat Stroke and Sun
Stroke

e) Know artificial respiration and use of CPR

e) Demonstrate CPR (Cardio Pulmonary
Resuscitation).
f) Exempted
f) Place an unconscious victim in the Recovery
position.
g) Transportation of victim - Practice with your
g) Transportation of victim - One Rescuer & two
family members
Rescuers

5. MAPPING :
Be able to access a GPS Map & use it to follow a 5. MAPPING : Learn how to use GPS map with
given route. the help of internet.
or
Draw a map of the area using Triangulation
method with the help of compass or Plane Exempted
Table method. or Sketch a map of the route
undertaken for at least four kms by using Road
Traverse method or Gilwell sketch

6. TALK :
6. TALK :
During the Troop Meeting give a talk for about
Prepare a talk for about five minutes on any
five minutes on any one of the following
subjects : one of the following subjects in the family :
a) National Integration, a) National Integration,
b) Child Abuse,
b) Child Abuse,
c) Substance Abuse, c) Substance Abuse,
d) Your future Scout Training,
d) Your future Scout Training,
e) Gender Equality,
e) Gender Equality,
f) Child Education, Child Health, Child Social f) Child Education, Child Health, Child Social
Security & Child Labour, Security & Child Labour,
g) Free Being Me. g) Free Being Me.
h) COVID-19
7. OUT OF DOORS :
7. OUT OF DOORS :
a) Plan an overnight Patrol camp.
a) Create awareness about Climate action
(SDG-13) through drawing/poster
making/video and share it on social media.
b) Undertake a day hike of ten kms on foot with
Patrol/Troop members. Prepare meals & Tea.
b) Plant a Bottle Garden
Make a report & submit it within a week after
the hike is over. The hike route is to be given by
the examiner.

c) Participate in a Night Game.

c) Organise/participate in Virtual Camp-Fire
or Prepare 40 handmade mask and handover
8. COOKING : to unit leader.
Cook food for your patrol by using
Backwoodsman method 8. COOKING :
Cook food for your family members with the
support of your Mother/Guardians at home for
at least a week
9. SIGNALLING :
Learn Morse Signalling and be able to send and 9. SIGNALLING :
receive simple messages of ten words exempted
10. PROFICIENCY BADGES : Qualify for any two
of the following Proficiency Badges one from 10. PROFICIENCY BADGES : Qualify for any two
each group of the following Proficiency Badges one from
Group A – each group not earned earlier (Amended) :
(i) Civil Defence, Group A –
(ii) Community Worker, (i) Safety Knowledge
(iii) Ecologist, (ii) Yoga
(iv) Oarsman (iii) Cook
(v) Pioneer (iv) Debator
(vi) World Conservation (v) Friend to Animals
(vii) Safety Knowledge (vi) Gardener
(viii) Self Defense. (vii) Launder
(viii) Reader
Group B –
(i) Citizen Group B –
(ii) Book Binder (i) Citizen
(iii) Naturalist (ii) Book Binder
(iv) Path finder (iii) Aids Awareness,
(iv) Aids Awareness, (iv) Healthy Man,
(v) Healthy Man, (v) Drug Awareness,
(vii) Drug Awareness, (vi) Computer Awareness
(viii) Boatman (vii) House orderly
(ix) Computer Awareness (viii) First-aider

11. Knowledge :
(a) Knowledge of Scouting in India and WOSM 11. Knowledge : As it is
(World Organisation of Scout Movement)
(b) Know and understand the safety measures
while using ATM card and Mobile Phone. or
Using basic electrical / electronic devices,
making out gadgets useful at home, under
supervision of a trained Adult

12. Fire :
Complete any three of the following:
12. Fire :
a) Safety precautions with regards to Fire.
Complete any three of the following:
b) Demonstrate Bucket Chain method of Putting
a) As it is
off fire
b) Learn how to extinguish LPG Leakage
c) How to tackle Dry Grass Fire
c) As it is
d) Types of fire extinguisher and use thereof.
d) Types of fire extinguisher and its use

13 Service :-
Know and Understand the disease tuberculosis- 13 Service :- To be amended as:
its symptoms, treatment and precautionary
Know the symptoms of COVID, its
measures to be preventing the disease,
prevention, Learn about quarantine and
knowledge about Directly Observed Treatments
(DOTS). isolation, use of PPE Kits etc.

RAJYA PURASKAR

Existing Syllabus Suggested Online Syllabus

Tests for RajyaPuraskar Badge : Tests for RajyaPuraskar Badge :

1. Ensure Proficiency in the tests undertaken up 1. No Change

to TritiyaSopan.
2. No Change
2. Hold TritiyaSopan Badge
3. No Change
3. Earn Ambulance Man Badge.

4. Undertake overnight hike for ten kms along 4. To be amended as:

with group of Scouts of his own Troop and Organise virtual camp-Fire with group of Scouts
submit report to the Scout Master within ten of his own Troop and submit report to the Scout
days. Master within ten days.
Or
Or Organise Virtual Youth Forum with group of
An overnight cycle hike for thirty kms along Scouts of his own Troop and submit report to
with group of Scouts of his own Troop and the Scout Master within ten days.
submit report to the Scout Master within ten or
days. Prepare 50 mask and handover to unit leader

5. Work on one of the following for six Months

and submit a report – Kitchen Garden/Roof 5. As it is
Garden/ Hanging Garden/Nature Collection.

6. Mapping: Make a map by using any one of

the method not done earlier: Plane Table or 6 As it is
Triangulation or Road Traverse

7. Camp Craft:
A). Be able to pitch strike and pack a Single/ 7. Camp Craft::
Double fly tent. A) Be able to pitch temporary improvised
shelter in your residential complex and know
the parts of a double fly tent

B) Splicing - Eye / Back / Short – anyone not B Types of fire extinguisher and use thereof
done earlier.

C) Make a Patrol Pioneering Project C) Make a improvised gadget useful at

home.
 8. Earn any two of the Proficiency Badges not
8. Earn any three of the Proficiency Badges not earned earlier from among the given below
earned earlier from among the given below:
Sanitation Promoter, Public Health Man, Soil Sanitation Promoter, Public Health Man, Soil
Conservator, Solar Energy Awareness, Safety Conservator, Solar Energy Awareness, Safety
Knowledge, Rural Engineer, Literacy, Knowledge, Rural Engineer, Literacy,
Community Worker, Rural Worker Community Worker, Rural Worker
Safety Knowledge,Yoga,Cook,Debator, Friend to
Animals, Gardener, Launder,
Reader

9. Earn any two of the Proficiency Badges not

earned earlier out of the following: Camper,
Pioneer, Star man, Forester, Naturalist, Tracker, 9. a. Registered on www.igot.gov.in and
Electrician, Signaller, Cancer Awareness, compete the basic of covid certificate
Healthy Man, Nutrition Educator, Farmer, Dairy b. Complete Entry level of plastic tide turner by
registering on www.tide-turners.org
Man, Sea fisherman, Free Being Me.

10. Have knowledge about the BSG website and

gain information about your Region.

10. As it is

Rashtrapati Scout Award

Article Particulars Remark

No.
18 (B) (i) Hold the Rajya Puraskar and be As it is
able to maintain the standard.
(ii) Camping :
(II) A. Make a useful gadget/handicrafts from
a) Camp with her Company/ Patrol for
three consecutive nights in the open. waste which can be brought in daily use.
Gatheringslike Jamborees, Rallies etc
are not to be count.
b) Be able to improvise either a
shelter or a hut or a machan with
available
natural material for two persons to
sleep in.
(iii) iii.a. As it is
(a) Hold the Disaster Management
Badge.
(b) Re-pass Ambulance Badge.
(iv) Qualify for any two of the
following ProficiencyBadges not As it is
earned earlier:
 a. Aids Awareness,
b. Handywoman
c. Beautician,
d. Pathfinder
e. Sea Fisherwoman
f. Hiker,
g. World Conservation
h. Interpreter,
i. Farmer
k. Free Being Me,
l. Solar Energy Awareness,
m. Event manager, v. Complete any three of the following:
n. Self Defence,

(v) Participate in a sustained a. Conduct a zoom meeting and present the

community development project at
least two hours in a week for six topic of your choice to the members of your
months on any two of the following unit
subjects: b. Participate in the Covid Warriors services for
A Promote gender equality and atleast for one months and submit a report to
empower women U.L.
B Reduce child mortality
C Improve maternal health
D Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria c. Prepare 100 Homemade mask and handover
and other diseases to U.L.
E Ensure environmental
sustainability. D. Register on www.igot.gov.in and compete
(vi) Under the guidance of the Guide
the basic of covid certificate
Captain, teach games for younger
children for fifteen days. e. Complete Entry level of plastic tide turner by
OR registering on www.tide-turners.org
Show the knowledge of Interior
Decoration and Fancy Cooking. (ViI) As it is
(vii) To have knowledge and viii. As it is
prepared a log book on Kenderstag
Adventure Centre of WOSM in
Switzerland.
(viii) Serve as Rajya Puraskar Scout at
least for 12 months.

NOTE: Scout Master will ensure that the skill subjects, which are exempted for Covid
period, should be introduced at the later stage before the Scout appear in Rajya
Puraskar/Rashtrapati Stage.