Students’ Federation of India (SFI), the students’ wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) zonal committee of Ashoknagar near Kolkata, will launch a month-long free martial arts training camp from August 15, 2018 for high school and college girls.
The SFI’s district secretary Rana Roy said that women were being attacked in every pocket of the state. “Women should be able to protect themselves without depending on others,” he said.
Earlier, the state CPIM women’s committee has organised several meetings, rallies highlighting women’s lack of security in the state.
SFI district secretariat member Akash Kar said, “There are 17 schools in the area and we are inviting girls from all of them, as well as girl-students from two local colleges. They will be trained free of cost.” The district SFI is trying to get back its gradually depleting public support highlighting how unsafe the state had turned for women since 2011.
