Bangladesh Girl Guides Association Explained

Type:organization
Bangladesh Girl Guides Association
Country:Bangladesh
F-Date:1973
Members:49,975
Image Size:140px

The Bangladesh Girl Guides Association (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ গার্ল গাইডস অ্যাসোসিয়েশন) is the national Guiding organization of Bangladesh. It serves 49,975 members (as of 2003).

History

Girlguiding in today's Bangladesh started in 1928 and became the East Pakistan Branch of the Pakistan Girl Guides Association in 1947. After Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan, the branch organization was reorganized into an independent national organization. The girls-only organization became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1973[1] [2] and was incorporated on 3 October 1973[3] by section 2 of the Bangladesh Girl Guides Association Act, 1973 (No XXXI), and that Act makes further provision in relation to the association.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Bangladesh Girl Guides Association Act, 1973 . Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs . 10 June 2019.
  2. Web site: Bangladesh Girls Guide Association . Banglapedia. en. 1 December 2017.
  3. The Bangladesh Girl Guides Association Act, 1973, section 1(2), which further provides that the Act has effect from 16 December 1971 onwards.
  4. As to this Act, see Abdul Matin, The Children's Law of Bangladesh, Rose Computer & Publications, 1993, pp 5, 227 & 228