Women Empowerment: Self defence training program for girls organised in Rajouri

RAJOURI : District Administration Rajouri, in collaboration with Yasmeen Karate Academy, today organised a self defence training program for girls.

The program was organised on the direction of Deputy Commissioner Rajouri, Vikas Kundal. Scores of enthusiastic girls were imparted training in Karate for self-defence.

Additional District Development Commissioner, Pawan Kumar was the chief guest at the event.

Interacting with the participants, he said that the objective of conducting such training programs was to motivate the girls to defend themselves against the attackers to the best of their ability.

He sensitised the participants about varied welfare schemes and programs launched by the government for the women folk and asked them to motivate the needy women to avail benefits of the same.

The participants were made aware regarding the peril of the drugs and the need to create mass awareness so as to eradicate it from society.

Among the others present during the event included DSWO, Wakeel Ahmed Bhatt; AD Planning, Mohd Rafi and others.