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The Indo-Tibetan Border Police force, which guards the 3,488 km-long India-China LAC, is establishing 10 all-women borderline posts on this arduous and icy frontier, the manager wide of the paramilitary said.
The force, arsenic portion of its ambitious "forwardisation" plan, initiated station the 2020 subject clash successful Ladakh, has besides moved its 215 borderline posts guardant on the beforehand connected India's northbound and eastbound flank truthful far.
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) DG Praveen Kumar said this during the 64th Raising Day parade of the unit held successful Jammu connected Saturday (November 22, 2025).
"We person worked connected the forwardisation program and, arsenic a result, the fig of forward-deployed BOPs (border outposts) is present 215 arsenic compared to 180.
"The constitution of 7 caller battalions and a assemblage office has not lone strengthened this program (forwardisation) but has besides enhanced our scope and supervision of the guardant areas...," the DG said.
The Centre had sanctioned 7 much battalions and a assemblage bureau comprising astir 9,400 unit for the ITBP successful 2023.
The DG said the unit volition found 41 much specified guardant bases on the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC) successful the adjacent aboriginal successful bid to "strengthen information and coordination".
As portion of enhancing the relation of women combatants, the ITBP is successful the process of establishing 2 all-women BOPs successful Ladakh's Lukung and Thangi successful Himachal Pradesh.
Eight much all-women BOPs volition beryllium made operational connected this front, the DG said.
The ITBP main said the grooming institutions of the unit person been "reorganised" and 5 caller skilling modules person been launched for the troops, including connected subjects similar upland warfare and tactical survival.
The ITBP, with a manpower of much than 1 lakh personnel, has its borderline posts ranging betwixt the tallness of 9,000 feet and implicit 14,000 feet, affected by inclement upwind and debased levels of oxygen.
The force, raised successful 1962, functions nether the bid of the Union Home Ministry.
