The Border Security Force (BSF), India's frontier force for Pakistan and Bangladesh, has commissioned over 9,500 personnel in the first three-and-a-half months of this year to bolster its manpower, official data said.
These personnel, largely in the entry rank of constable, are being gradually deployed at border posts along Pakistan and Bangladesh and for internal security duties in the hinterland that includes undertaking armed combat against Left Wing Extremists (LWE), a senior officer told PTI.
Out of the total 9,550 troops commissioned into the force between January 1-April 13, about 1,700 are women personnel, the data said.
