Ladakh: The soldiers of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) celebrated the Independence Day on the banks of Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh at 14,000 feet. The soldiers carried the tricolour of ITBP flags part of the celebrations.
The force also released a mashup of the popular patriotic songs sung by its soldiers. The mashup has been released by ITBP on its social media handles.
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????? ?????!ITBP troops celebrating Independence Day 2020 on the banks of Pangong Tso in Ladakh.#IndependenceDayIndia #IndependenceDay2020 pic.twitter.com/TYj8JyYxvd
— ITBP (@ITBP_official) August 15, 2020
The force has urged the names of its 21 personnel for gallantry medals for fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the army in keeping the Chinese troops at bay amid the border standoff between the two countries over the last three months in Ladakh.
Senior officials said on the condition of anonymity said that these incidents of face-off did not happen in the Galwan Valley but at half a dozen other places in eastern Ladakh.
The soldiers were engaged in standoffs, sometimes as long as 17 to 20 hours, but received minimum casualties and gave appropriate reply to the stone pelters of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
The paramilitary force, which is responsible for guarding the 3,488-km de facto border between the two countries, or the Line of Actual Control (LAC), said its 294 personnel have been awarded the commendation disk of the ITBP director-general for their bravery in Ladakh.
Six other soldiers of ITBP have been awarded for their courage in anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh.
A Central Armed Police Force (CAPF), the ITBP is deployed at the difficult high altitude Himalayan terrains.
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