Somewhere in the Dekkan Plateau of India, one of the states have passed a mandatory regulation for school girls by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI): all government high schools must teach martial arts training to all the girls.
This bold move has come about as a result of increasing reports of sexual predators committing sexual assaults and acts of atrocity against school girls. Self-defense classes begin September 30 at all the secondary level schools. The program includes 30 hours of classroom teaching and 2 hours of practice weekly.
“The aim is to infuse confidence among girl students. As there is a shortage of karate instructors in rural areas, all physical instruction teachers will be trained for 12 days by karate experts at the block level in the first phase. Other teachers too will be trained, if they are interested,” says a DPI source.
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