ITBP gets 500 women troops for border posting

Panchkula, January 15

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A freshly trained contingent of 500 women personnel, which will be the first ‘mahila’ squad to be deployed in high-altitude posts along the border with China, was today commissioned into the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) here.

The women, in the rank of constable, were inducted in the border guarding force after 44 weeks of training in battle craft and mountain survival and will now be sent to frontier areas before being deployed at ITBP posts along the 3,488-km Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.

These ‘mahila’ contingents are expected to be posted by March this year at about 20 forward locations of the ITBP situated at heights of between 8,000-14,000 ft, including at the ‘Mana pass’ border post, the last village in Uttarakhand.

Director General, ITBP, Krishna Chaudhary, asked them to exhibit the best skills and discharge their duties in difficult locations in the Himalayan ranges.—PTI