Scout Association forming the Bharat Scouts and Guides on 7 November 1950. About a year later, on 15 August 1951, the All India Girl Guides Association joined this new organisation. In 1959, the 17th World Scout Conference in New Delhi was hosted by the BSG. The Sangam World Girl Guide/Girl Scout Center in Pune, Maharashtra, India, opened in 1966. The idea for this fourth World Centre dates back to 1956 when it was developed during a WAGGGS International commissioners' meeting in New Delhi. The United Nations selected the Bharat Scouts and Guides as honorary "Peace Messengers" for their significant and concrete contributions to the International Year of Peace in 1986. Sethna's 18th West Bombay Scout Group Sethna's 18th West Bombay Scout Group is the oldest continuously running Scout Group in India. It was established in 1914, when Rustomji Edulji Sethna (1898–1954) came across the book Scouting for Boys, written by Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement. He was enamoured by the book and formed one of India's first Scout groups for native boys. Prior to that, there existed some Scout groups, but they were primarily for the British expatriates in India. Sethna resisted joining one of the competing Scout associations and registering his troop until Scouting became open for all irrespective of color, caste, or creed. He wrote to Baden-Powell about this discrepancy. In 1921 the regulations were changed and all were allowed to become part of the Scout movement in India. The 18th West has been continuously running since the day it started. None of the World Wars or the Partition of India stopped the group from functioning. Sea Scouts and Guides Sea Scouts and Guides is the oldest continuously running Sea Scout Group in India. It was re-established in 2000 by Ocean Cadet Academy Nigdi/Pune, Maharashtra and got affiliation with The Bharat Scouts and Guides, National Headquarters, New Delhi on 18/1/2022 as Auxiliary Unit. url=http://www.seascoutsindia.com/ Henry Warington Smyth Baden-Powell KC (3 February 1847 – 24 April 1921), known as Warrington, was a British admiralty lawyer, master mariner and canoeist. Robert, asked him to write a manual for Sea Scouts. He wrote a book on Sea Scouting and held positions in The Boy Scouts Association, formed by his brother, Robert Baden-Powell. In June 1912, his book, Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys was published. In 2011, a Sea Scout Group of the Portuguese Corpo Nacional de Escutas