| Sri Lanka Scout Association | |||
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| Headquarters | Colombo | ||
| Country | Sri Lanka | ||
| Founded | 1912 | ||
| Membership | 75000 | ||
| Chief Scout | President Ranil Wickremesinghe | ||
| President | Merrille Goonetilleke[1] | ||
| Chief Commissioner | Janaprith Fernando | ||
| Affiliation | World Organization of the Scout Movement | ||
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| Website www.scout.lk | |||
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The Sri Lanka Scout Association (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂ සංගමය Shri Lanka Baladaksha Sangamaya; Tamil: இலங்கைச் சாரணர் சங்கம்), is a Scouting organization in Sri Lanka operated by the Ceylon Scout Council. The Ceylon Scout Council is a corporation formed by Act No. 13 of 1957.[2] The association became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1953. The coeducational Sri Lanka Scout Association has 33,709 members as of 2014.[3] in 2016 the year that the National Organisation reached 104 years the Scouting Population in Sri Lanka had increased to 55,078 the growth taking place against the year 2015 was 29% which was a great achievement by the SLSA.
There are various community development projects carried out in cooperation with government organizations, United Nations and other service organisations.
Scouting has been introduced into the prisons. It has spread to other institutions such as certified schools. There are also Scout units for handicapped boys such as the blind and deaf and for boys in leprosy hospitals.
- ^ "Sri Lanka Scout Council – SRI LANKA SCOUTS".
- ^ "Gazette of Government of Ceylon" (PDF). Gazette of Government of Ceylon. Chapter 498: XV/324. March 1957.
- ^ "Triennal review: Census as at 1 December 2010" (PDF). World Organization of the Scout Movement. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2011.