After an enduring training spanning for 44 weeks, 286 Sepoy trainees passed out from the training centre of 23 battalion located here and donned colours of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). Uttarakhand provided the maximum number of 61 recruits while 49 new entrants belonged to Uttar Pradesh, 33 to Bihar, 29 to Karnataka and 26 belonged to Jharkhand. Speaking on the occasion the reviewing officer of the passing out parade, Inspector General (IG) of Northern Frontier headquarters of ITBP, IS Negi said the personnel of force apart from manning the international border are discharging internal security duties also. He said that he firmly believes that the new recruits would carry forward the brilliant tradition of the force.
On the occasion the best performing recruits in various disciplines were also felicitated. Sepoy GD Azad Singh of 35 battalion was conferred the award of over all best trainee.