Union cabinet sanctions seven new battalions; 9400 personnel for Sino-India LAC guarding ITBP

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet Wednesday sanctioned seven new battalions and an operational border base with a fresh strength of 9,400 personnel for the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC) guarding force Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), officials said.

The proposal was cleared after the meeting of the cabinet that was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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According to the government sanction, the fresh manpower will be utilised for manning 47 new border posts and a dozen ‘staging camps’ or troops bases along this frontier. The armies of India and China are engaged in a standoff in Ladakh since 2020.

The about 90,000 personnel-strong ITBP was raised in the aftermath of the 1962 Chinese aggression and it is tasked to guard the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC) on India’s eastern flank.

PTI