Govt. Of India To Recruit Young Women Officers In ITDP Force

08 March, New Delhi

In a maiden initiative undertaken for women empowerment in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), the Government of India has decided to recruit young female officers in the force and deploy them at select locations like Nathula Pass along the Indo-China frontier.

ITBP is the designated security force to secure 3,488-km Line of Actual Control with China. Security establishment sources said that the Union Public Services Commission is expected to issue advertisements for these posts this year itself.

Women will be recruited as Assistant Commandants, which is the direct entry level for officers in Central paramilitary forces.

ITBP has suggested that they could be deployed at border interaction points like Nathula in Sikkim and at battalion or sector command units of the force in eastern states like Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

The women officers can supervise the working of the border guarding contingents under their command and also undertake patrolling at some select stretches.