'Saluting With Pride': Joyous Moment For ITBP Officer As His Daughter Gets Inducted In Combat Cadre

The force started recruiting women combat officers in its cadre from 2016 on the basis of an all-India examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

New Delhi: In a first, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police force on Sunday inducted two women officers in combat after they completed their training.

Indo-Tibetan Border Police shared a heartwarming moment wherein Diksha, who joined the force as Assistant Commandant, received a salute from her father Inspector Kamlesh Kumar.

"Saluting the daughter with pride..." the ITBP tweeted sharing photos of the father-daughter duo beaming with joy.

"Diksha joined ITBP as Assistant Commandant. His father Insp/CM Kamlesh Kumar of ITBP salutes her after the Passing Out Parade and attestation ceremony at ITBP Academy, Mussoorie today," it added.

Of the total 53 officers who passed out from the ITBP officers' training academy located in Mussoorie, Prakriti and Diksha were inducted into the force and took an oath to serve the country at the attestation ceremony. 

ITBP director general SS Deswal and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami - who was present as Chief Guest at the parade event on Sunday - put the ranks of Assistant Commandant, the entry-level officer rank in the paramilitary, on the shoulders of the two women officers.

Besides Prakriti and Diksha, 42 officers are in the general duty combat cadre, while 11 are in the engineering cadre of the about 90,000 personnel strong mountain warfare trained force.

These officers will now be posted across ITBP formations in the country, including the LAC with China and the anti-Naxal operations theatre in Chhattisgarh.

It must be noted that until now, ITBP had only combat women in the constabulary ranks. The force started recruiting women combat officers in its cadre from 2016 on the basis of an all-India examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

(With PTI Inputs)