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Assistant commandant as a rank was envisaged by General J. N. Chaudhuri, who was part of the committee studying the need for a dedicated Border Guarding force raised on military lines to guard the perilous India-Pakistan border given the UN conventions deriding and preventing military formations or build-up on the borders between the two un ...
The BSF's capabilities were used in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 against Pakistani forces in areas where the Regular Forces were thinly spread. BSF troops took part in several operations, including the famous Battle of Longewala. In fact, for the BSF the war on the eastern front had started well before the war actually broke out in December 1971.
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He passed out from BSF Academy, Tekanpur in 1985 October as Direct entry Assistant Commandant and inducted in National Security Guards of India. He also did work as a Platoon Commander/Coy Commander on Internal Security Duty in Punjab between April 1984 to September 1989 and got promoted to the rank of Deputy Commandant (Dy Comdt).
The Battle of Longewala was depicted in the 1997 Hindi film Border, which was directed by J. P. Dutta and starred Sunny Deol as Major Kuldeep Singh, Jackie Shroff as Wing Commander M.S. Bawa, Sunil Shetty as Assistant Commandant Bhairon Singh (BSF), and Akshaye Khanna as Dharam Veer. [41]
In 1987, 6 more battalions of ITBP were raised to stop bank robberies in the state of Punjab, in the final stages of the insurgency in Punjab. [4] In 1992, the ITBP was authorized under the new ITBP act, while it had previously been authorized under the CRPF Act. The rules of the ITBP act were framed in 1994. [4]
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The company is commanded by an assistant commandant and the BOP is commanded by Sub-Inspectors, with each BOP comprising several border check points. A battalion consists of 1,000 personnel. As of 2005, SSB had 25 battalions and received government clearance for 20 more battalions, 2 sector HQ and 1 frontier HQ in 2 years.