At least 550 girls of different colleges across the State will be provided self-defence training from July 15 to October 24 in 11 phases here at the Kalinga Stadium by the Utkal Karate School as part of the Odisha Youth Policy-2013. Then, these trained girls will impart the skills to nearly 4 lakh girl students at the district level in order to empower them physically and mentally to counter any untoward incidents.
Briefing mediaperosns here, Utkal Karate School secretary Hari Prasad Pattanayak said, “The State Government under its Odisha Youth Policy-2013 has given the assignment to us to train self-defence skills to girls. We prepared a detailed curriculum for the purpose, and subsequently it was approved by the Government.”
“This ‘training programme of master trainers’ will be held in 11 phases and each batch will have 50 students. Then, the master trainers will train nearly 4 lakh girls across the State, besides women cops and others,” said Pattanayak.
Besides giving martial arts training and training in some advance techniques with which a girl can teach a lesson to the miscreants, training would also be given to use items available in the surroundings as weapons to protect them.