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A project of Kolkata Police for the School & College Girls

Women safety has always been one of the top priorities of any law-enforcing agency. Law enforcement agencies all over the world are taking problem of offence against women very seriously as offence against women is universal. Be it within the confines of home or in the public sphere, offence against women has been observed, documented and tolerated by societies all across the globe.

Kolkata Police with a view to eradicate and minimize the possibility of commencing offence against women has introduced a unique programme for the young girls’ students styled as SUKANYA. It is an inspirational project, replicated and adopted from the concept of Kanyashree, a dream project of the Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal. It is a concept for imparting self defence training for the girls’ students. The basic objective of this project is to build confidence amongst the girl students of the Schools by means of imparting self defence training so that  the girls are made capable of defending themselves  and counter any sort of ordeal. The project was launched in the year 2014 with its formal inauguration at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra on 24.02.2014. Reputed Martial Arts training agencies of the city are engaged to impart them with self defence training.

The first Certification Ceremony for the girls’ students of different Schools who had undergone and successfully completed self defence training course under SUKANYA project of Kolkata Police was held on 15.05.2015 at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra. Dr. Sashi Panja, Hon’ble MOS, Child Development & Women and Social Welfare Departments, Govt. of West Bengal was present as the chief guest. Total 646 numbers of Students from 31 Schools got their certificates from Hon’ble MOS and Ld. Commissioner of Police Kolkata.   .

Like the first certification ceremony, 2^nd certification ceremony was held on 16.09.2016 at Nazrul Mancha. Dr. Sashi Panja, Hon’ble MOS, Child Development & Women and Social Welfare Departments, Govt. of West Bengal was present as the chief guest this time also. Total 2419 number of Students from 48 Schools and College got their certificates from Hon’ble MOS and Ld. Commissioner of Police Kolkata.

On 25.09.2018 3^rd certification ceremony was held at Nazrul Mancha, Hon’ble Minister Shri Sadhan Pandey and Hon’ble MOS, Dr. Shashi Panja were present & handed over the certificate to 2280 successful girls.

On 06^th January 2020 Sukanya Phase III have started, covering 96 Educational Institutions under Kolkata Police Jurisdiction, imparting approx 3800 nos. of girls students.

This initiative of Kolkata Police will definitely help the girls to be more confident and physically capable of tackling any sort of possible harassment. SUKANYA is a true example of ‘Women Empowerment’. SUKANYA can be rightly termed as one of the noblest initiative among the many community policing initiatives of Kolkata Police.