The Centre on Wednesday approved a full cadre review, resulting in creation of over 3,000 new posts, and creation of two operational commands for the ITBP that guards the LAC with China. Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said the cadre review exercise of the force has been conducted after 18 years, the last one was done in 2001. The review, for Group 'A' general duty (executive) cadre and non-general duty officials, will create over 3,000 new posts, including 60 in the top command, and will also allow it to raise two commands along the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China guarded by the paramilitary. The decision comes on the eve of the ITBP's 58th Raising Day on Thursday. The two commands, western to be based at Chandigarh and eastern at Guwahati, will be headed by Additional Director General (ADG)-rank officers and will have several frontiers under them that will oversee troops and battalion deployments along the China frontier, stretching from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh.
