Preserve core values of pluralism, secularism: Prez to Scout &

President Pranab Mukherjee today underlined the need to be "mindful of the sensitivities" of people around as he exhorted a group of Bharat Scout and Guide cadets to collectively preserve the core values of pluralism, compassionate coexistence and secularism.
The President made this observations while presenting the Rashtrapati Scout/Guide/Rover/Ranger and Adult Leader Awards/Certificates for the year 2015 at a function held at Durbar Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
"Each one of us must be mindful of the sensitivities of those around us, and the effect of our words and actions on them. We must collectively preserve the core values of pluralism, compassionate coexistence and secularism that have served, over the years, to safeguard the fabric of our society," he told the cadets.

Mukherjee said the movement of Scout and Guides is a unique platform available for the youth to learn through experience, the values of friendship, hard work, harmony and humanity.
"I am glad to know that Bharat Scouts and Guides with a membership of about 5.7 million is one of the largest non-governmental, non-political, voluntary and educational youth organisations in our land. This is a mammoth resource pool that can undertake massive transformation if it so decides," the President said.
Mukherjee said he has been told that members of Bharat Scouts and Guides have actively responded to the appeal of the Prime Minister for actively participating in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and that the volunteers are enthusiastically implementing it throughout the country.

"The Scout and Guide fundamental principle of 'doing one's duty to God and Country, and service to fellow being' has also been the fundamental ethos that drove the act and duties of so many historical figures, who took the oath of doing so in this historic building (Rashtrapati Bhavan)," he said.