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Sir, there are so many articles on the issue published by stalwarts like Gen Chibber. I have thousands of offers to write or join some Media channels but I refused and am happy in DFI. IPS bureaucracy has developed permanent stakes in CAPF and they have been raised those from fifty-odd...

What are the Solutions Option One. Paramilitarisation of ITBP on the lines of Assam Rifles. Option Two. Place LAC under Army during peace and War and sanction required numbers of additional battalions of Army for that task. Option Three. Place required numbers of ITBP battalions and...

Command and Control Of ITBP LAC Mangement During Peace. We use LAC management as a jargon but that actually amounts to Policing India China border during peacetime. Here peace time means that the war has not been declared otherwise the entire LAC lies in a highly active operational area where...

Policing Vs Militarisation I have come often come across a very faulty argument advanced even by very senior IPS officers that Policing is very different from Military functions. I agree with them so far as policing means beat constabulary or policing through thanas. But Policing by Armed...

Is LAC Management a Piece Time Activity . LAC nowhere is a peacetime terrain, threat and task. There are no peacetime like threat to LAC. So by advocating policing of LAC who are the Indian establishment especially the IPS bosses and MEA diplomats trying to impress? The Norms of Policing the...

Higher Structures of CAPF and ITBP Every Force or organisation must be controlled, directed and supervised for which it has higher level setups or say in this case HQs. However, every higher level orgnistaional component or HQ must have a functional role and task. In the case of CAPF, which has...

All Borders Are Different Neccessitating Diffrent Approaches Policing or a guarding method and approaches for a border are dictated by the nature of border, the threat to a particular border and prevalent terrain. Indo - Nepal and Indo Bhutan Border (SSB). it is well-settled IB requiring...

Border Policing / Border Guarding Forces Without going into the history of CAPF, their origins, tasks, roles and employment. it would be wise and logical that we start from the year 2004 when a GoM recommended that CAPF border Policing Forces be employed on the basis of “One Border One Force”...

Army revives interest in ITBP command ihttp://idrw.org/army-revives-interest-in-itbp-command/#more-228738 . The Indian Army has renewed its demand for operational command of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, amid talk of “intelligence and command failure” leading to the ongoing stand-off and...

One of the Members on DFI has claimed that ITBP has no weapons. If any they are not allowed to carry magazine with them while patrolling the India - China LAC. They patrol with Dundas ! Is that true ???

The India China LAC border management is the responsibility of ITBP and they are deployed there. How many battalions ?? What are they actually doing ? Any answer to that ???

Shared Chief and Vacancies at Top Rung Weaken BSF, ITBP as Pakistan and China Get Aggressive on Borders https://www.news18.com/news/india/shared-chief-and-vacancies-at-top-rung-weaken-itbp-bsf-as-pakistan-and-china-get-aggressive-on-borders-2637293.html The Indo-Tibetian Border Police, at the...

This has reference to Mr Asthan's writeup in Wire about the state of BSF which was commented upon in previous posts. One of the major points raised by Mr Asthan was how the IPS Cadre have ruined the BSF and do not know anything about the organization, its role and task. Here is a news item that...

National Security Setup and CAPF The overall Thrust of Shri Asthana's article is the old wine in a new battle wherein he argues that IPS should be well trained in military science and BSF capable of warding off the attacks and militarily defend the IB. He has only stopped short of stating that...

Military Education To IPS Officers It is very nice of Shri Asthana that he has tried to understand military nuances of defending a border. He has carried out some studies and recommends his IPS cadre officers to study the subject. However, under Indian Conditions it would be futile to train an...

Options For Militarization of CAPF Shri Asthana's observations that BSF and other border guarding CAPF have significant military tasks at hand and that military skills have to be aren't are absolutely valid. Let us examine some options to achieve that. * Option One. The militarization of...

How to Mashup BSF Peacetime Defensive Activities with War Plans Shri Asthana has suggested certain measures to fortify the forward defenses / Defences along the IB. Those must fall under two categories. Measures required for peacetime Police activities and Measures required for War. Both these...

Past Precedence of BSF In Wartime BSF Being Overrun By Enemy. The instances cited by Shri Asthana are correct and the Army has learnt their lessons that BSF can not be given independent tasks in defenses of the forward tier. BSF post being overrun in 1971 were on flanks and not adequately...

BSF and The IPS There is a lot of friction and heart-burning amongst the CAPF officers as they all want to be treated like IPS Officers and at par with them. That is simply not possible. IF CAPF are Police Forces then their natural bosses are IPS. That is how the structure of bureaucracy is...

BSF and The IPS Author of the article Mr Asthan himself is retired IPS Officers and has held some higher level appointments in the BSF. It has been his contention that it is due to IPS officers ignorance about matters military and their hostile attitude towards Army that has been a stumbling...