Bijapur: A majority of Muslim families think twice and sometimes thrice before sending their daughters to enhance their skills other than academics. The trend subjected more in suburban areas where the parents like their daughters to stay at home after their regular school classes. Breaking the stereotype is a Bijapur family whose belief in their daughter has seen their 11-year-old daughter earn the Karate Black Belt.

Nadira Rozindar is a young 11-year-old daughter of Hayat Rozindar and now wears the Black Belt over her Karate gear with pride and a bright smile on her face. Nadira is also extremely passionate about the martial art that has given her a reckoning at a young age. She works hard and with a dedication to work on enhancing her skills in the martial arts.

Nadira started learning Karate when she was studying in Class 3, the biggest encouragement to her, came from her father, Hayat Rozindar who vehemently believes that children, mainly girls must learn self defence techniques.

“In the current scenario, it is important for the girls to learn self defence techniques which gives them emotional strength to fight during any adversaries. I believe every family must send their children, especially daughters to learn some kind of martial art” Hayat says.

With this clear objective, he admitted his daughter to a local Karate institute where she has been undergoing training for about three years now.

Karate training has a total of nine belts. It starts with a white belt and ends with a black belt while each belt carries different sets of rules and techniques. Only after passing those techniques, the students get a chance to earn a new belt.

Meanwhile, Naadira said that she could have completed the black belt a little earlier itself, but because of the COVID pandemic, the classes stopped and the exams were postponed.

“I recently completed the exam where trainers of Hubballi had come as supervisors. Since I completed all techniques, I was given a black belt”, she said with pride.

She now wants to continue Karate and wishes to complete different levels.

While Nadira wishes to continue her training, the father wants her to open a separate Karate coaching center in the coming days that will only train girls.

“I want my daughter to become an instructor of Karate by opening a separate school only for girls where she should be training and encouraging girls to undergo martial art training for their self defence. Hopefully, in a few years, she will start the center, and I will do whatever is required for that”, Hayat said.

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Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.

Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.

Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.

An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.

The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.

A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.

Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."

"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.

"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.

A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.