In an attempt to ensure safety and security of the girls with physical and mental self dependency, the UP government will impart self-defence training of the girls in the upper primary and composite schools.
The girl students would be trained up under the Mission Shakti phase -4  from this month. The programe is named after the ‘Rani Laxmi Bai’ Self-Defence training across the state.
There has been a steep decline in the cases of crimes against women in the state because of Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, and his policy of ‘zero tolerance’ against crime against women during the last 5 and a half years.
Director-General of the School Education department, Vijay Kiran Anand, has already issued detailed guidelines the of the the self-defence training programme.
The main purpose of self-defence training is to make the girls, physically and mentally, self-dependent so that they can face and deal with any odd situation without being conflicted,  official here on Sunday said.
An action plan for the training of the girl students has been prepared and the training will be compulsory for the girl students, which will start very soon and would be continued till February 2023.
Health and physical education instructors and sports teachers, will provide training to all the girls, studying in the schools, during this period for physical education, sports, arts and music.
The school headmasters would supervise the training programme and apart from this, one of the teachers in each of the schools, will also be included in the training, who will be continuously present during the training.
During the warm-up activities in the first week of the programme, a mock drill will be conducted with the children making them aware of the safety measures, laws and helpline numbers etc.
For easy reference, a booklet prepared by the Women and Child Protection Organization Headquarters, 1090 Lucknow, based on important laws regarding crimes against women and children, will also be read and discussed in detail with the children.
For the year 2022-23 as well, health and physical education instructors and sports teachers will provide self-defence training to girls in their schools.