{"id":2716,"date":"2025-10-26T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T06:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:03:18","slug":"indo-tibetan-border-police-itbp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indo-tibetan-border-police-itbp\/","title":{"rendered":"Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prime Minister recently extended greetings to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on its 64th Raising Day, commending the force for its unwavering dedication, courage, and humanitarian service in protecting the nation\u2019s frontiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>Central Armed Police Force<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> functioning under the <\/span><b>Ministry of Home Affairs, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This force <\/span><b>guards <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>3,488 km long India-China <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">border through 197 BOPs situated at altitudes ranging from 9,000 ft to 18,750 ft <\/span><b>from Karakoram Pass in Ladakh to Jachep La in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Background<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>raised in 1962, in the wake of the Sino-Indian War of 1962,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for deployment along India\u2019s border with China\u2019s Tibet Autonomous Region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ITBP was initially raised under the CRPF Act. However, in <\/span><b>1992<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, parliament enacted the<\/span><b> ITBPF Act,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the rules thereunder were framed in 1994.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In 2004<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ITBP was <\/span><b>declared as a full-fledged central armed police force under the Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Motto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201c<\/span><b>Shaurya-Dridhata-Karma Nishtha\u201d (Valour \u2013 Determination \u2013 Devotion to Duty)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Known as <\/span><b>one of the most specialized mountain forces in the world<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ITBP operates in some of the <\/span><b>harshest and most remote areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where temperatures can drop below -40\u00b0C.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ITBP <\/span><b>trains its personnel in mountaineering, skiing, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and tactical combat, in addition to maintaining readiness for disaster response and relief operations in the Himalayan region.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>headed by a Director General <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under the Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Headquarter: New Delhi.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/pm-modi-hails-itbps-courage-and-dedication-on-64th-raising-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DDN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is a Central Armed Police Force functioning under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":70399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3404],"class_list":{"0":"post-2716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-indo-tibetan-border-police-itbp","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}