The authorities these days sanctioned hiring of 9,four hundred clean troops for elevating seven new border battalions other than a brand new operational base for the India-China LAC guarding pressure Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). The thought turned into cleared all through the assembly of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) that turned into chaired via way of means of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Information and Broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur instructed newshounds all through a publish cupboard press briefing.
The approximately 90,000 employees robust ITBP turned into raised withinside the aftermath of the 1962 Chinese aggression and it’s far tasked with guarding the 3,488-km-lengthy Line of Actual Control (LAC) on India`s japanese flank. The pressure is running at the side of the Army at this the front at the same time as the militaries of India and China are engaged in a standoff at Ladakh from 2020.
According to the authorities sanction, the clean manpower can be utilised for manning forty seven new border posts and a dozen ‘staging camps’ or troops bases to be created alongside this frontier, in large part in Arunachal Pradesh. These bases had been sanctioned in 2020.
In order to make sure powerful guarding of the LAC, those new bases had been sanctioned and now seven battalions and a brand new area headquarter comprising approximately 9,four hundred employees were sanctioned, a senior officer stated. The battalions and the world headquarter are anticipated to be installed location via way of means of 2025-26, Mr Thakur stated.
He stated a non-habitual expenditure of ₹ 1,808.15 crore is expected to be spent for land acquisition, introduction of workplace and home buildings, and palms and ammunition whilst a habitual annual expenditure of ₹ 963.sixty eight crore can be performed below the salaries and rations head for the clean manpower.
Officials stated the introduction of forty seven new border posts will cause a 26 in keeping with cent boom withinside the energy of those bases whilst the induction of 9,four hundred clean employees will beautify its energy via way of means of 10 in keeping with cent. The pressure has 176 border posts on the LAC currently.
