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ITBP deploy women personnel at China border for first time

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police have deployed 100 women at 15 'gender neutral' border outposts

ITBP has a total of 1,661 women personnel in its various ranks and branches of work with the maximum number of 1,033 being in the constabulary ranks. Photo: ReutersPremium
ITBP has a total of 1,661 women personnel in its various ranks and branches of work with the maximum number of 1,033 being in the constabulary ranks. Photo: Reuters

Greater Noida: At least 100 women Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel have been deployed at 15 border posts along the arduous Sino-India frontier, making it the first such posting of ‘mahila’ combatants in a forward area.

The force has recently completed the full processes for deployment of the women personnel at select forward posts, ITBP director general Krishna Chaudhary told reporters in Greater Noida.

The women contingent, trained in warcraft and weapon firing, have been posted after the Border out Posts (BoPs) were made “gender neutral" and other facilities were created for them, Chaudhary said.

Officials familiar with the matter said while the maximum of these women have been sent to ITBP BoPs in the Ladakh frontier of Jammu and Kashmir, few have been posted at other locations in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. The total number of the women personnel, who have been posted at BoPs, is about 100, they said, adding that few more BoPs will have women personnel in the coming days.

The ITBP earlier this year commissioned 500 women troops for deployment at India-China border in its constabulary ranks after training them for 44 weeks in battle craft and mountain survival. The posts where these women have been deployed are situated at heights between 8,000 feet and 14,000 feet, including the ‘Mana pass’ border post, the last village on the Indian side in Uttarakhand.

The force plans to have women personnel make up at least 40% of its strength at these forward posts. This is the first time India has deployed women troops right at the front, at least on the one which is considered to be the most arduous and tricky given the harsh climatic conditions and extreme mountainous terrain along the India-China border.

ITBP, which marked its 55th Raising Day on Monday, was raised in the aftermath of the 1962 Chinese aggression. These women, who were recruited in the force in February last year, hail from various states with 97 of them, the highest, coming from the hill state of Uttarakhand. Women constables were first inducted in this 80,000 personnel strong force in 2008, but they were, until now, only deployed for rendering law and order duties in troubled areas and in a few instances at the Nathu La pass to facilitate traders and for frisking women.

ITBP has a total of 1,661 women personnel in its various ranks and branches of work with the maximum number of 1,033 being in the constabulary ranks.

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Published: 24 Oct 2016, 09:02 PM IST
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