ITBP inducts first women officers on combat service

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 09, Aug 2021

• The IndoTibetan Border Police (ITBP) force guards the Line of Actual Control (LAC) along the India-China border.
• ITBP was raised on 24 October 1962, under the CRPF Act, in the wake of the Sino-Indian War of 1962.
• 53 officers including 2 women officers passed out from the ITBP officers' training academy located in Mussoorie
• The ITBP started recruiting women combat officers in its cadre from 2016 through an all India Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). 
• ITBP already had combat women but only in the constabulary ranks.