{"id":5096,"date":"2022-12-01T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T05:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2025-03-27T04:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:45:12","slug":"border-security-force-bsf-raising-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/border-security-force-bsf-raising-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Security Force (BSF) Raising Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Border Security Force (BSF) celebrates its <strong>Raising Day on 1 December every year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It was on December 1, 1965 that the first sector of the Punjab Frontier of the BSF was raised with its headquarters in Jalandhar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Currently, BSF comprises 2.65 lakh personnel, deployed across the international border in 193 battalions.<\/li>\n<li>BSF plays a crucial role in containing unauthorized entry into or exit from the territory of India and it prevents transborder crimes.<\/li>\n<li>It also works towards stopping illegal activities such as smuggling.<\/li>\n<li>After the Indian Army, the <strong>BSF is the only Central Armed Police Force in the nation that has an independent air wing, effective artillery regiment<\/strong>, dedicated marine division and a special intelligence branch.<\/li>\n<li>The BSF is also the sole paramilitary organisation globally to use an <strong>active camel cavalry to patrol the sands of the Thar Desert<\/strong>, which comprise of the common border between India and Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The \u2018Creek Crocodile &#8211; a Quick Reaction Team made of BSF commandos<\/strong> &#8211; was also raised to counter threats like that of 26\/11.\n<ul>\n<li>They guard the brackish waters of the Kutch region in Sir Creek to prevent cross-border infiltration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Despite being a border force, more than 7,000 women of all ranks are serving in the force on the eastern and western theatre.<\/li>\n<li>This year, BSF will be celebrating its raising day for the first time in Punjab and second time outside Delhi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the motto of BSF?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>With the slogan of &#8216;Duty until death&#8217; BSF has the important duty of protecting the national borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1880126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PIB<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BSFBSF celebrates Raising Day on December 1 after its first sector of Punjab Frontier was raised in 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","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=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}