ITBP gets 500 women troops for deployment at India-China border

A freshly-trained contingent of 500 women personnel – which will be the first 'mahila' squad to be deployed in high-altitude posts along the India-China border -- 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 for final acclimatisation before being deployed at ITBP posts along the 3,488-km Sino-India Line of Actual Control (LAC).

These 'mahila' contingents are expected to be posted by March at about 20 forward locations of the ITBP.