47 new outposts, weapon upgrades, V-SAT systems: ITBP gets more teeth amid LAC dispute | India News

NEW DELHI: Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), deployed together with the Army on the Indochina border, has a weapons upgrade, V-SAT systems for better border communication, better vehicles, as well as bulletproof vests and helmets for its personnel, as part of its modernization. ITBP General Director SS Deswal said on Saturday on the occasion of his Resurrection Day.
State Minister G Kishan Reddy in his speech at the Uprising Day event, added that the Interior Ministry, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the Interior Minister’s leadership Amit shah, took a series of initiatives to empower the ITBP. This included granting approval to ITBP to establish 47 border posts. This year alone, he said, 28 types of new vehicles had been forcibly provided. He added that ITBP staff in high altitude areas had received specialized clothing and mountaineering equipment.

“A budget of 7,223 million rupees has been allocated for the ITBP and more than 15 million rupees have been sanctioned for the management,” he said while praising the courage shown by the ITBP men during the clash with Chinese troops in Ladakh. .
In his message to the ITBP on its Resurrection Day, Interior Minister Amit Shah tweeted: “The courage and courage of our ITBP staff cannot be expressed in words. His commitment to safeguarding our homeland in the most difficult terrain in the world is truly remarkable ”.
Speaking earlier, Deswal said that ITBP had sent a proposal regarding phase 2 of the Indochina border roads program to the Interior Ministry. In addition, a high-level empowered committee was analyzing another critical infrastructure proposal – 18-foot roads in Arunachal Pradesh – and the Director General hoped that construction on it would begin soon.

Deswal commended the ITBP Jawans deployed to Ladakh for bravely dealing with the recent border challenge, and said that he had honored the staff on site by visiting their border posts, even as the names of many staff members had been recommended for gallantry awards. .
Reddy also praised the ITBP’s “selfless” services in the fight against Covid-19, in particular its operation and management of the largest Covid call center in Chhatarpur, New Delhi.
Raised on October 24, 1962 during the India-China War, ITBP primarily protects the nation’s 3,488-kilometer-long borders in the Himalayas in BOPs located at altitudes ranging from 3,000 feet to 18,800 feet. The force is also deployed for anti-Maoist operations and other internal security tasks.