On the first day of the year 2018, the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday visited the forward areas in the Himalayan region of Uttarakashi district. He met the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Force jawans deployed at the Nelong Border Out-Post (BOP) located at an altitude of 11,636 feet. The Home Minister had personal interaction with the jawans deployed at the Himalayan heights of the region.
While addressing the ITBP jawans during a Sainik Sabha, Singh lauded their dedicated service done in tough circumstances at high altitudes of Himalayas in sub-zero temperature.
He said that the Himveers are working with high morale and that the Ministry of Home Affairs is aware of the invaluable services rendered by the ITBP personnel to the nation. He assured them that the ministry is trying to extend all possible support to the force to make it stronger.
The ITBP Director General RK Pachnanda and senior officers accompanied Singh on the visit. Earlier, on New Year’s eve, the home minister had met the families of ITBP jawans residing in the family quarters of the unit premises at Matli in Uttarkashi and greeted them on the occasion.
This was the first ever visit by Singh to Nelong valley in Uttarkashi. In September-October last year, the union home minister had visited Mana, lapthal and Rimkhim BOPs besides various other formations of ITBP- Mountaineering and Skiing Institute at Auli near Joshimath and Gauchar and had celebrated Dussehra with ITBP jawans.