ITBP may be patrolling Ladakh LAC now. What is it and India’s many armed police/paramilitary forces

Amid the India-China stand-off, a more prominent role for the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in LAC management with the Army is being considered. This brings into focus India’s many paramilitary, armed police and border forces. In episode 517 of ThePrint's #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta lists all, their role and pedigree and how these add up to the third largest land army in the world.
Correction: 24:52: Rajiv Gandhi
Read Shekhar Gupta's National Interest column on Central forces here: theprint.in/national-interest...
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He took their name in the same breath but never mentioned that SFF reports to MHA. May be people with 'elaborate' education saw it was 'implicit' pacemaker to the heart of the argument.

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@Omni Curious he didn't talk about CISF and if you were not so fixated on SFF, you'd have noticed he talks about Forces concerned with patrolling and conducting operations behind border areas also. You don't have to marinate me in your 'enlightenment' crusade to redeem me from Shekhar Gupta.

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You forgot to mention one CAPF i.e CISF, Central Industrial Security Force

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Thank you for covering SFF- we in India should be thankful to our extended Tibetan family members who have sacrificed for their adopted home. It is not well known that they made tremendous contribution in 1971.

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Nice one! But I didn't get answer to few of your introductory questions. Wether they are under used or optimally used? What changes are needed or no need of change. I was waiting for your take on these but episode ended without it.

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Sir, you forgot CISF (Central Industrial Security Force). It's also a CAPF.

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I was also looking for CISF... It's a prominent force

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2:59 CISF

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@@PradeepkumarMegalamani of course it has been mentioned... But no details discussed

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SFF should have been an interesting topic since it's exactly a paramilitary of Tibetan refugees yet included and also excluded from the indian military

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Just the other day I wrote a thank you note to Shekhar Ji, and he tops that episode with this gem of information about India's paramilitary forces. India has numbers and clear assignments to all these. Co-ordination and modernization is what will take them to next level.

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Wonderful account of India's paramilitary forces.

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Shekhar ji, do you have any good recommendations for defense related twitter handles with? Thanks

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Thanks a lot for the insight !!!! i never knew that we had such an extensive para military set up !!! Jai Hind !!!

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The whole video he kept saying that they are CAPF and not Paramilitary, people confuse them for paramilitary and here you are writing the same thing

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May be you could have included some more details like the kind of weapons used by the various forces and also the future weapons that are to be acquired by these forces

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In describing the area of operations for ITBP, you mentioned Ladakh, himachal, uttarakhand and Arunachal, but didn't mention Sikkim, is Sikkim outside the purview of ITBP ?

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Baang Khung Dri OGAS has been granted but IPS dominance will take a while to fade.

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And NFFU has been granted last year.

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Seems like UPSC prep is going on

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I believe an error took place at 24:53... I think you meant Rajiv Gandhi and not Rahul Gandhi. If I'm wrong, then please excuse my note.

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Was there a Madras session of AICC in 1936? Which resolution is being referred to?

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