PM Modi salutes brave ITBP personnel on their Raising Day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday saluted the brave personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on its Raising Day.

"On the Raising Day of ITBP, I salute our brave ITBP personnel. We are proud of their valour, determination and service to the Nation," he said on Twitter.

The ITBP was raised on October 24, 1962. Presently, the ITBP is deployed on border guarding duties from Karakoram Pass in Ladakh to Jachep La in Arunachal Pradesh covering 3,488 km of Indo-China border and manning Border Outposts on altitudes raging from 9000' to 18700' in the Western, Middle and Eastern Sector of the Indo-China border.

The ITBP is a specialized mountain force and most of the officers are professionally trained mountaineers and skiers. Being the first responder for natural disaster in the Himalayas, the ITBP has been carrying out numerous rescue and relief operations.

Presently, ITBP commandos are providing security to Embassy of India in Kabul, the Consulates General of India in Jalalabad and Kandahar in Afghanistan since November 2002.

The ITBP has also excelled in UN peace keeping operations. Personnel of the force have been deployed for peacekeeping operations in Angola, Namibia, Cambodia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mozambique and Kosovo.