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Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB; transl. Armed Border Force) is a central armed police force in India under the Ministry of Home Affairs. It is responsible for guarding India’s borders with Nepal and Bhutan .
Originally constituted as the Crown Representative Police in 1939, CRP was raised in response to the political unrest and agitations in the then Princely States of India following the Madras Resolution of the All-India Congress Committee in 1936 and the ever-growing desire of the Crown Representative to help the vast majority of the native States preserve law and order as part of imperial policy.
Sashastra Seema Bal: 97,244 [9] Ministry of Home Affairs: India–Nepal border and India–Bhutan border [10] Border guard Special Frontier Force: 10,000 [9] Cabinet Secretariat [11] Covert operations: Special Protection Group: 3,000 [9] Cabinet Secretariat: Security of Prime Minister of India: Executive Protection: Total 1,065,445
Since India's independence in 1947, the protection of its international boundaries was the responsibility of the local police in each border state, with little inter-state coordination. [8] However, during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Pakistan attacked Sardar Post, Char Bet, and Beria Bet on April 9, 1965, in Kutch. This attack exposed the ...
Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) – 82,000 personnel on the Bhutan and Nepal borders Indian Coast Guard (तटरक्षक) – a specialized maritime force under India's Ministry of Defence dedicated to protecting the sea borders.
Indian Armed Forces in Jammu and Kashmir encompass the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, tri-service units such as the Armed Forces Special Operations Division (AFSOD), and paramilitary organisations of the Central Armed Police Forces such as the Border Security Force, the Central Reserve Police Force, the Sashastra Seema Bal and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.
The Indian side of the border is regulated by Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) along with local police. The Nepali side of the border is regulated by the Armed Police Force (APF) along with the local branch of Nepal Police. Often SSB (India) and APF (Nepal) perform joint patrols on the border. [24]
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