Shri Ram Bajpai founded the Seva Samiti Boy Scouts Association in the year 1914 at Bombay on the lines of the world-wide Baden-Powell Organisations, which at that time banned Indians from joining it. Though later Baden-Powell, after a private visit to India, lifted the colour bar, Bajpai’s organisation continued its separate existence, for it had the aim of bringing about the complete Indianisation of the Boy Scout movement in India.