DAMINI

An Initiative of Community Policing Wing, Kolkata Police

Kolkata Police recently launched a project namely “Damini for women empowerment. It may be mentioned that Kolkata Police runs a highly acclaimed project “Nabadisha” in 42 Police Stations since 1997. It is an educational and healthcare programme targeted to the vulnerable children on the streets of Kolkata. In addition to studies, these children are encouraged to take up vocational training programmes in handicrafts, theatre, drama, music, art and various sports activities.

Among these vulnerable children, girls with age group 10 – 16 years will be identified and be subjected to football coaching with a view to empower them to develop their confidence, social awareness and at the same time to identify the football talents.

It has been found that girls specially belonging to lesser privileged section of the society often fall prey to various social evils like child marriage, human trafficking, domestic violence, cruelty and various other forms of offences against women.

This project “Damini” is aimed mainly to make girls aware of the curse of the above social evils so that they can cope-up with such offences of their own.

The following are the expected outcome of the project.

Community of empowered young girls
Accomplishment of shared values
Healthy lifestyle at the base of the pyramid
Talented girl footballers

Kolkata Police has the plan to spread the project throughout Kolkata in four centres in the north, south, east and western part.

The project was launched at Park Circus Maidan on 10.02.2018 at 15:30 hrs. The coaching will be held thrice a week for two hours duration on each day.

2^nd Venue was started at the office of the DC, North Division on 05.05.2018 at 06.30 am. Presently coaching of 2^nd venue is going on at 5^th Bn. KAP Ground.

More girls will be brought under this project so that Women Football Team may be raised.