The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force, which guards the 3,488 km-long India-China LAC, is establishing 10 all-women border posts along this arduous and icy frontier, the director general of the paramilitary said.

The force, as part of its ambitious "forwardisation" plan, initiated post the 2020 military clash in Ladakh, has also moved its 215 border posts forward along the front on India's north and eastern flank so far.

ITBP DG Praveen Kumar said this during the 64th Raising Day parade of the force held in Jammu on Saturday. "We have worked on the forwardisation plan and, as a result, the number of forward-deployed BOPs (border outposts) is now 215 as compared to 180.

"The establishment of seven new battalions and a sector headquarters has not only strengthened this plan (forward

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