{"id":211149,"date":"2023-02-16T01:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T19:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=211149"},"modified":"2023-02-16T01:27:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T19:57:52","slug":"union-cabinet-sanctions-7-new-battalions-9400-personnel-for-sino-india-lac-guarding-itbp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/02\/16\/union-cabinet-sanctions-7-new-battalions-9400-personnel-for-sino-india-lac-guarding-itbp\/","title":{"rendered":"Union cabinet sanctions 7 new battalions; 9,400 personnel for Sino-India LAC guarding ITBP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 15 Feb:<\/strong> The Union Cabinet on Wednesday sanctioned seven new battalions and an operational border base with a fresh strength of 9,400 personnel for the India-China LAC guarding force Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposal was cleared after the meeting of the cabinet that was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the government sanction, the fresh manpower will be utilized for manning 47 new border posts and a dozen &#8216;staging camps&#8217; or troops bases along this frontier. The armies of India and China are engaged in a standoff in Ladakh since 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The about 90,000 personnel strong ITBP was raised in the aftermath of the 1962 Chinese aggression and it is tasked to guard the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC) on India&#8217;s eastern flank. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 15 Feb: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday sanctioned seven new battalions and an operational border base with a fresh strength of 9,400 personnel for the India-China LAC guarding force Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), officials said. The proposal was cleared after the meeting of the cabinet that was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-211149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}