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PRATHAM SOPAN SYLLABUS

 

Pratham Sopan Requirements

1) Learn about your Patrol its Flag, yell or song and corner. 
2) Know general rules of health, Practice B.P’s six exercises or Six Asanas or Surya Namaskar. 
3) Learn and practice Hand signals and whistle Signals, 
4) Lean wood craft signs and follow a track. 
5) Whip the ends of a rope. 
6) Tie and show uses of reef knot, sheet bend, clove hitch, sheep shank, bowline, fisherman’s knot and round turn and two half hitches. 
7) Participate in Troop Games. 
8) Practice orderly movements and simple drill for smartness. 
9) Know the contents of the First-Aid Box. Demonstrate the use of roller bandages and triangular bandages collar and cuff sling and triangular suspension sling. Render first aid for cuts and scratches. 
10) Participate in two patrol outdoor meetings or a patrol day-hike. 
11) Make a gadget or handicraft useful at home.
12) Adopt for purpose of keeping clean a park or a water-point or a bus stop or any other public spot or a Building for a week. Or observe for at least a month breeding places of mosquitoes and flies and look to its cleanliness. 
13) Participate in any two of the following activities. 

(i) Undertake a nature study project in consultation with your Patrol leader.
(ii) Discuss with your Scoutmaster and render some service involving any one of the points of Scout Law and submit a report to your Scout Master.

DWITIYA SOPAN SYLLABUS

 

Dwitiya Sopan Requirements

1) Tie and show the uses of Timber hitch, Rolling hitch, Marlyn Spike/Lever hitch, figure of eight Knot, Sheer, Square and diagonal lashings, Demonstrate the uses of four camp tools.

2) Fire

(i) Lay and light a wood fire in the open with not more than two match sticks and clean and light a kerosene / gas stove. 
(ii) Demonstrate any three of the following 
(a) Safety precautions with regard to fire. 
(b) Bucket Chain method of putting out fire. 
(c) How to tackle dry grass fire. 
(d) Precautions in case of Gas leak

3) Cooking: Cook in the open, two simple dishes, enough for two persons and make tea/coffee for one Patrol over wood fire or stove.

4) Compass:

(i) Demonstrate practical use of a compass and know the sixteen points. 
(ii) Be able to find North by at least two constellations. 
(iii) Have knowledge of paces, bearing and map sketches.

5) First Aid:

(i) Demonstrate St.John’s sling and 
(ii) improvised stretcher 
(iii) Throw a lifeline for 10 mtrs 
(iv) Render First Aid for

a) Burns and Scalds           b) Sprains              c) Stings and Bites            4) Bleeding from Nose. 

6) Satisfy your Scoutmaster that your behavior at home and at school is good. 

7) Estimation: With the help of improvised apparatus, estimate two distances / width of not more than 100 mtrs. 

8) Participate in a Troop Wide Game

9) Know and demonstrate-Morse Signaling by any one of the methods, Flas/disc/buzzer, or demonstrate semaphore signaling by Flag. 

10) Qualify for one of the following Proficiency Badges.

1) Cook    2) Debater    3) Friend to Animals    4) Gardener      5) Handyman     6) Cyclist       7) Launder 

11) Participate in Troop/Patrol sustained activity organized by the Scout Master for a month in your community making use of Scout skills. 

12) Complete any two of the following

(a) Collect information on our heritage and culture and prepare a log. 
(b) Undertake a development project in your school with your patrol in consultation with the head of the institution. 
(c) Participate in a social service camp. 
(d) Serve in a community fair or mela. 
(e) Discuss with your parents and neighbors about a pollution problem in your locality and make a report of it.

13) Serve as Pratham Sopan Scout for at least nine months.

TRITIYA SOPAN SYLLABUS

 

Tritiya Sopan Requirements

1) Camp Craft:

Demonstrate:
(i) Whipping other method than by the one done in Pratham Sopan.
(ii) Draw hitch, Fireman’s chair knot, Man harness knot and splicing-eye, back, short.
(iii) Pitching, striking and packing a tent or improvise shelter enough for two persons to sleep in.
(iv) Make a Trestle and a rope ladder with the help of another Scout.

2) Swimming:

(i) Swim 50 meters.
(ii) Know the safety rules of swimming and
(ii) Know hoe to prevent, minimize and deal with muscle cramps.

OR

Earn one of the following Proficiency Badges:

(i) Athlete (ii) Camel Man (iii) Climber (iv) Gymnast (v) Hiker (vi) Games Leader (VII) Yoga

3) Estimation

(i) Estimate any given two heights/depths not more than 30 mtrs.
(ii) Two weights not more than 2 kg.
(iii) Two different types of things in number. (Items such as coins, marbles, biscuits, etc.

4) First Aid

(i) Treat for shock, fainting, chocking.
(ii) Deal with simple fracture of arm, collarbone and jaw fracture
(iii) First Aid for cases of drawing and electric shock.
(iv) Demonstrate mouth to mouth resuscitation.

5) Mapping

(i) Map Reading, knowledge of scale, conventional signs, contours and grid references. Be able to read a tourist map or Survey of India map and follow a given route or lead a person. 
(ii) Map Making: Triangulation, Plane Table and Road Traverse methods.

6) Pioneering:

(i) Demonstrate use of knife and axe and their safety rules.
(ii) Build two Patrol Pioneering Projects and demonstrate their uses.

7) Participate in an overnight Troop camp.

8) Hike: Undertake with another Scout a cycle hike for 30 kms. And submit report to the Scout Master within 10 days. A Hike on foot with another Scout for 10 kms, and submit a report to Scout Master within 10 days.

OR

A Hike on foot with another Scout for 10 kms, and submit a report to Scout Master within 10 days.

9) Cooking: Cook in the open, meals enough for four persons.

10) Plan and participate in Patrol Expedition.

11) Participate in a night game.

12) Signaling: Send and receive a message through Semaphore code containing at least 25 words.

13) Quality for any two of the following Proficiency Badges one from each group:

Group A

i) Civil Defense ii) Community Worker iii) Pioneer iv) World Conservation

Group B

i) Citizen ii) Book Binder iii) Naturalist iv) Path finder

14) Complete any one of the following and prepare a log book.

(i) Talk on National Integration to your Group.
(ii) Talk in a Troop Campfire or tell the story of a Prophet.
(iii) Discuss in your Patrol-in-Council how Scouting develops National Integration.
(iv) Lead your Patrol to a nearby place of historical/social/religious or industrial importance and discuss about, what it speaks of.

15) Show the knowledge of Scouting in India.

16) Serve as Dwitiya Sopan Scout for at least 9 months.

RAJYA PURASKAR SYLLABUS

 Rajya Puraskar Requirements

1) Should ensure proficiency of knowledge and skill up to Tritiya Sopan Badge.

2) Hold Tritiya Sopan Badge and earn any three of the Proficiency Badges not earned earlier from among the given below:

1) Literacy 2) Community Worker 3) Ecologist 4) Leprosy Control 5) Sanitation 6) Soil Conservator 7) Rural Worker

3) Earn any one of the Proficiency Badges from each of the two groups:

Group-A

(i) Camper (ii) Naturalist (iii) Signaller (iv) Electrician (v) Starman (vi) Dairy Man

Group-B

(i) Public Healthy man (ii) Cancer awareness (iii) Healthy Man (iv) Nutrition Educator (v) Farmer

PROFICIENCY BADGES IN PDF FORMAT

 FRIEND TO ANIMALS

CITIZEN

COMMUNITY WORKER

COOK

ATHLETE

COOK - SCOUT

BOOK BINDER

GARDENER

COMMUNITY WORKER

GAME LEADER

ELECTRICIAN

PUBLIC HEALTH MAN

LITERACY

CANCER AWARENESS

ECOLOGIST

AMBULANCE MAN