SRINAGAR, JULY 27: Department of Social Welfare, SANKALP- Hub For Empowerment of Women- Mission Shakti Srinagar organized a series of self-defense training sessions from 3rd June to 27th July 2024 in various educational institutions across district Srinagar under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP), for empowering women in their day to day life and equipping them with self-defense techniques.
The events were organized in collaboration with the Department of Education and J&K Sports Council.
Through self-defense training, the girls are taught to become psychologically, intellectually, and physically strong enough to protect themselves in times of distress.
Self-defense training techniques instill self-confidence amongst girls and help to promote girls’ education particularly their transition to secondary and higher secondary level and to reduce the dropout rate in schools. The girls are trained to use everyday articles such as key chains, dupattas, stoles, mufflers, bags, pens/pencils, notebooks, etc as tools of opportunities/ improvised self-defense tools to their advantage.
The Self-defense training programs were organized in various educational institutions of District Srinagar including Government GHSS, Kothibagh, and Govt. Women’s College Nawakadal, Govt. GHSS, Sonwar, Govt. GHSS, Soura, Govt. GHSS, Amirakadal, Govt. GHSS Khanyar, Govt GHSS Zadibal respectively.
The purpose of organizing these self-defense training sessions at various educational institutions was to comprehend the importance of various self-defense techniques and make the girls learn different self-defense techniques of front kick, Elbow strike, attack, and defense, escape with hands trapped, escape from a bear hug attack, groin kick & palm strike and self-defense techniques used for self-protection while traveling, self-defense techniques used while theft incident.
