ITBP awards Archers for their outstanding performance

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Monday awarded their Archers,who sweeped all trophies at the 10th All India Police Archery Championship (AIPAC-2021) and won 41 medals. Sanjay Arora, DG  gave away the medalists and their coach with DG’s Insignias and cash rewards as per sports policy of the Force for their exemplary performance at the Championship.Speaking on the occasion,Arora said that the unprecedented success of ITBP archers will surely be a motivation for other players of the Force. I S Duhan, IG (Training) ITBP said that the AIPAC-2021 was hosted by ITBP successfully and the Force sweeped maximum medals- 41 in all out of total 111 medals in all categories of the Archery Championship. He said that 17 DG’s Discs, 1 Commendation Roll and cash reward of a total amount of Rs 2,86,000 was given to the Archers for their outstanding performance at the Championship.23 members of the central archery team of ITBP participated in the Championship out of which 18 have won medals including 18 Golds, 11 Silver and 12 Bronze medals in Recurve, Indian and Compound rounds of the Championship.

The ITBP also won the overall championship trophy, men’s and women’s championship trophies as well. Raised in 1962, the ITBP is deployed to guard the extreme borders of the Nation from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh. For continuous deployment in snowy regions, the jawans of ITBP are known as ‘Himveers’.