YOUTH HOSTEL ASSOCIATION OF INDIA

YOUTH HOSTEL ASSOCIATION OF INDIA

The Youth Hostel Movement had found its way into India before the partition of the country in 1947. The idea was introduced in the early forties by the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of India, Punjab Circle, after that the first Youth Hostel was formally opened at Tara Devi near Shimla on June 9, 1945, inaugurated by Sir Bertrand Glancy, Chief Scout and Governor of the Punjab. In 1949, some enthusiasts in Mysore set up a Committee to promote the movement in India. Three years later the Youth Hosteal Association of India (YHAI) received the Associate membership of the International Youth Hostel Federation. On October 5, 1970, National Youth Hostel Trust was created through a Resolution passed by the National Council of YHAI, a day earlier. Its emblem has an eccentric circle with a green border, which holds a round cornered equilateral green triangle. The eccentric circle refers to travelling and staying in a hostel. It has its anagram written in a stacked manner. The letter ‘Y’ is put up on a red colour ‘I’ to depict a hiker and ‘A’ has an apex treated as a tent. Below this ‘भारत’ meaning ‘India’ is placed.