ITBP’s First 500-Strong Female Squad to Guard Indo-China Border

The first female squad of 500 freshly trained personnel of the ITBP will be posted on the India-China border.

An all-women contingent marches in the 2015 Republic Day parade. (Photo: Reuters)

The first female squad of 500 freshly trained personnel of the Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) is all set to be posted on the India-China border.

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 for final acclimatisation before being deployed at ITBP posts along the 3,488-km Sino-India Line of Actual Control (LAC), reports The Times of India.

ITBP director general Krishna Chaudhary, after reviewing the ‘passing out parade’ of the new personnel, asked them to exhibit the best skills that they have learnt during training to discharge their duties in some of the most difficult locations in the Himalayan ranges.

<p>You will be further trained in field training and high-altitude acclimatisation before your final deployment. I am sure you will do the country and the force proud.</p>

<b>Krishna Chaudhary, ITBP director general</b>

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