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Proficiency Badges

This document outlines the proficiency badge system for Scouts in India. It discusses the purpose and benefits of proficiency badges, which are meant to encourage Scouts to develop skills and knowledge in a variety of areas based on their interests. The document provides requirements for different levels of proficiency badges, including badges for the Dwitiya and Tritiya Sopan levels. It also lists requirements for higher awards that involve earning multiple proficiency badges, such as the Rajya Puraskar and Rashtrapati Scout awards.

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Proficiency Badges

This document outlines the proficiency badge system for Scouts in India. It discusses the purpose and benefits of proficiency badges, which are meant to encourage Scouts to develop skills and knowledge in a variety of areas based on their interests. The document provides requirements for different levels of proficiency badges, including badges for the Dwitiya and Tritiya Sopan levels. It also lists requirements for higher awards that involve earning multiple proficiency badges, such as the Rajya Puraskar and Rashtrapati Scout awards.

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PROFICIENCY BADGES

INDU SHEKHAR TRIPATHI


ALT (S)
K.V.S.STATE
KOLKATA DIVISION
No man goeth about a more godly purpose
than he who is mindful of upbringing not only
his own but of other peoples children.
Socrates.
PROFICIENCY BADGES
The system of Proficiency Badges was in B.p.’s original
scheme and has always been a distinctive feature of
Scouting.
Proficiency badges are an aid to character training and to
development of qualities of good citizenship.
They offer the boys incentives for progressing along with
the lines suggested by his own taste and abilities.
THREE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE
PROFICIENCY BADGES ARE :
1) The badges acts as an incentive to extend boy’s
knowledge in any of the subject that interests him-
Aids to enjoyment throughout his life and leads
towards the career.
2) The badges provide a ready means of encouraging
the dull backward boy. In such a wide range of
subjects even dullard can choose some subjects to
retain his self respect and gain self-confident.
3) Higher awards for groups of Proficiency Badges like
Rajya Puraskar Award, President’s Scout Award etc.
will continued and progressive training of scouts.
THE MORE INTERESTING POINTS ARE:
1) They help the Scout master in studying each and
every Scout of his Troop to find out his desire and
inclination in choosing the badges .
2) They also keep the intelligent boy occupied in the
useful trades and skills.
3) Scouts make good use of their leisure time to
promote higher and broader- based Scouting.
Suggestions for the trainers:

1) As this is the most neglected area of the Scout training. Try to


make the Session as lively as possible.
2) Prepare good aids including the chart of Proficiency Badges or
Badges stitched on a cloth.
3) 3) Have a copy of A.P.R.O.II with you and read out the syllabi of
some of the very easy badges. Which boys can easily gain very
quickly without strain .
4) See reaction – ask for doubts and questions, try to answer them
confidently , convince them about the importance of badge
system.
5) Make them understand the correct place of various badges on
uniform.
6) Tell them to make a note of all relevant rules of A.P.R.O. II.
TESTS FOR DWITIYA SOPAN
QUALIFY FOR TWO FROM THE FOLLOWING
BADGES :
1) COOK
2) DEBATOR
3) FRIEND TO ANIMALS
4) GARDENER
5) HANDYMEN
6) CYCLIST
7) LAUNDER
8) READER
9) HOSPITAL MAN
TESTS FOR TRITIYA SOPAN
PROFICIENCY BADGES:
QUALIFY FOR ANY TWOOF THE FOLLOWING
PROFICIENCY BADGES ONE FROM EACH GROUP
GROUP- A
1) CIVIL DEFENCE
2) COMMUNITY WORKER
3) ECOLOGIST
4) OARSMAN
5) PIONEER
6) WORLD CONSERVATION
7) SAFETY KNOWLEDGE
8) SELF DEFENCE.
GROUP B-
1) CITIZEN
2) BOOK BINDER
3) NATURALIST
4) PATH FINDER
5) AIDS AWARENESS
6) HEALTHY MAN
7) DRUG AWARENESS
8) BOATMAN
9) COMPUTER AWARENESS
RAJYA PURASKAR
EARN ANY TWO OF THE PROFICIENCY BADGES NOT
EARNED EARLIER
1) CAMPER
2) PIONEER
3) STAR MAN
4) FORESTER
5) NATURALIST
6) TRACKER
7) ELECTRICIAN
8) SIGNALLER
9) CANCER AWARENESS
10-HEALTHY MAN
11- NUTRITION EDUCATOR
12- FARMER
13- DAIRY MAN
14- SEA FISHERMAN
15- FREE BEING ME
RASHTRAPATI SCOUT AWARD
QUALIFY FOR ANY TWO OF THE FOLLOWING
PROFICIENCY BADGES NOT EARLIER:
1) AIDS AWARENESS.
2) HANDYMEN
3) FIREMAN
4) PATH FINDER
5) SEA FISHERMEN
6) HIKER
7) WORLD CONSERVATION
8) INTERPRETER
9) FARMER
10- FREE BEING ME
11- SOLAR ENERGY AWARENESS
12- EVENT MANAGER
13-SELF –DEFENCE
14- BACKWOODSMAN

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