India, Nov. 23 -- The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force on Saturday said that it is establishing 10 all-women border posts along the 3,488 km-long, arduous and icy line of actual control (LAC) between India and China.

Speaking at the 64th Raising Day parade of the force held in Jammu, the 63-year-old force, ITBP's director general (DG) Praveen Kumar made the announcement. "We have worked on the forwardisation plan and, as a result, the number of forward-deployed BOPs (border outposts) is now 215 as compared to 180," news agency PTI reported quoting Kumar as saying.

The force, as part of its "forwardisation" plan, initiated after the 2020 military clash in Ladakh, also moved its 215 border posts forward along the front on India's n...