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Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Force should be relieved from Duties of Internal Security
ITBP should only be deployed for border-related tasks
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force should be relieved from duties of internal security and deployed only for border-related tasks, a parliamentary panel has said while stressing that internal security and anti-Naxal operations are draining soldiers from the border.
The report on the working conditions of Border Guarding Forces was recently submitted to the Rajya Sabha.
The ITBP, deployed at the rough China border, has been raising the issue of being overburdened with non-border duties with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for quite some time.
The panel headed by former Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said, "The committee observes that the ITBP was raised for border security. However, some ITBP battalions are deployed for anti-Naxal operations and internal security, as a result, the jawans suffer in terms of training and rest."
