INDO-TIBETAN BORDER POLICE (ITBP)

About:

• ITBP is one of the Central Armed Police Forces of India.
  
  
• ITBPF is a specialized mountain force and most of the officers and men are professionally trained mountaineers and skiers.
  
  
• Origin: It was raised in 1962, in the wake of the Sino-Indian War of 1962 for deployment along India's border with China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
  
  
• Status: ITBP was initially raised under the CRPF Act. However, in 1992, parliament enacted the ITBPF Act and the rules there under were framed in 1994.
  
  
• Motto of the Force: “Shaurya-Dridhata-Karma Nishtha” (Valour – Determination – Devotion to Duty).
  
  
• Parent ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs.