MUSSOORIE: Lac India-China who guarded Indo-Tibetan border police forces on Sundays assigned two of their first female officers in battle after they finished their training here.
As many as 53 officers fainted from the ITBP officer training academy located in Mussoorie after the passing parade was held, with Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami led as a major guest.
A first book ‘Itbp’ book containing 680-pages containing many facts and unknown photos of the strength of the border guards was also released by Dhami together with the Director of ITBP General S S Decal.
Dhami and Deswal placed the ranks of the commander’s assistant, ranking entry-level officers in the paramilitary, on the shoulder of the two female officers – Prakriti and Diksha – after the parade and evaluating ceremony that shared it to serve the country.
ITBP began recruiting female combat officers in its cadres starting in 2016 through all-Indian examinations carried out by the UNI Public Service Commission (UPSC).
Before this, it only has a fighter woman in Constabulary.
Of the total of 53 officers, 42 officers were in a common duty combat cadre, while 11 was in a technical cadre of around 90,000 powerful mountain war training power personnel.
The officer will now be posted on the ITBP formation in the country, including LAC with China and the anti-naxal operating theater in Chhattisgarh.
The generation was appointed after the 1962 Chinese aggression and its main role was to maintain 3,488 km of India-China’s line of actual control (LAC) apart from rendering various roles in the internal security domain.
Overcoming young officers who trained for 50 weeks (general cadres) and 11 weeks (cadres of Engineering) in various battle subjects and strategies, Dhami said the commanders must “provide the best” when doing their duties.
He said the country was safe because of the courage of the armed forces and sacrifices made by uniformed personnel.
“I was the son of a soldier and I had seen the army carefully.
I have seen the struggle of their family,” he said while congratulating the young officers he said took “the first step to serve their nation”.
CM also praised the power to issue his first history book, which has around 1,000 invisible operational photos starting from the period when the union government plans to raise it.
“This book has been published considering making reference volumes for factual history and knowledge of power to officers and Jawan.
It will also be useful for administrative and training purposes and to get in-depth details and is an official history and is the official history of the word force,” a spokesman said ITBP Vivek Kumar Pandey.
Pandey itself has an instrumental in carrying out books after years of research and talking with officials who serve and retirees and others who are closely involved with the creation of the power of specializing in the mountain war.
“There are no such books at the ITBP available until this publication.
It contains historical achievements from power from the start,” Pandey said, the officer ranking second, said.