ITBP to train on Mountain Warfare at its new institute in Sikkim
First Published: 18th July, 2022 14:35 IST
The training centre in Sikkim is the ITBP's second overall centre to skill its troops in high-altitude combat and survival tactics.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has created its first mountain-warfare training centre in northeast India.
The training centre in Sikkim is the ITBP’s second overall centre to skill its troops in high-altitude combat and survival tactics as part of their mandate to guard the Line of Actual Control with China.
The new centre has been established in remote Dombang, abutting the LAC, and is located at a height of 10,040 ft in Sikkim sharing a 220 km front of the India-China LAC.
The facility has come almost after five decades after the establishment of its first such school called the mountaineering and skiing institute during 1973-74 at Auli near Joshimath.
The M&SI is located at a height of more than 9,000 ft in the Himalayan ranges of Uttarakhand and has trained thousands of ITBP, army, Air Force and other security personnel in this domain and for adventure sports.
A senior ITBP officer told PTI that the training centre at Sikkim was conceptualised in order to enhance the capacity to train newly recruited and serving troops in mountain warfare, rock climbing, high-altitude survival and patrol even as the need to have one more facility than Auli was being felt for long, given the increasing engagement of its troops with the Chinese PLA over the last few years.
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