Sat phones, oxygen cylinders for ITBP along Sino-India border

New Delhi, Oct 20 (PTI) In an effort to strengthen its
position along the Sino-Indian border, India has decided to
provide more than 100 satellite phones, all terrain vehicles
and oxygen cylinders to the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
The troops deployed at icy-glacial heights will also get
high-altitude clothing at par with Army soldiers who are
deployed at the Siachin glacier.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has also sanctioned
computers, recovery vehicles, fibre reinforced polymer huts,
high-power snow cutters, deep search mine metal detectors,
hand grenade stimulator's and other surveillance devices for
the Indo-Tibetan Border Police troops.
Addressing his men before the 48th Raising Day of the
force, ITBP Director-General Vikram Srivastava Tuesday said
the troops will also be provided with modern Border Out-Post
(BOP) equipped with solar power generating apparatus.
"Every BOP will be provided with two 620 litres capacity
oxygen cylinders. A number of such initiatives have been taken
for the benefit of our troops posted at these difficult
areas," Srivastava said.
The DG also said four battalions (4000 men) of the force
would be soon inducted for anti-naxal operations in Jharkhand
and Chhattisgarh.
The ITBP has also been sanctioned ration at par with the
Army, he said. PTI