First girl IPS officer who scaled South Pole main ITBP ops in U’khand

The rescue operation being undertaken on the Tapovan energy tunnel in Uttarakhand is being led by the primary girl ITBP officer to efficiently scale the South Pole, and another ace mountain-warfare skilled officers of the border guarding pressure who’ve seen disasters within the hills up shut.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Aparna Kumar, a 2002-batch Indian Police Service officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, is the senior-most subject officer of the pressure on the bottom.
Kumar, 45, who’s the sector in-charge of the ITBP northern frontier based mostly in Uttarakhand’s capital- Dehradun, is nicely generally known as the primary girl IPS and ITBP officer to efficiently conquer the South Pole, the southernmost level on the globe located in Antarctica, in 2019.
The officer, who has two younger youngsters and hails from Karnataka, joined the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in 2018 on deputation.
She advised PTI on telephone from Joshimath that the “operation of clearing the slush in the Tapovan tunnel is continuing”.
“It is a tough task but we are on it,” Kumar stated.
She had advised reporters in 2019 that her first brush with mountaineering occurred when she was commanding a Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) battalion in Uttar Pradesh some years in the past.
“I did my advanced mountaineering course in July, 2014 and since then there has been no looking back,” Kumar had stated.
She has additionally accomplished the celebrated seven summits’ problem by scaling all of the seven high peaks of the seven continents and was awarded the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award by President Ram Nath Kovind in 2019.
“Kumar has been camping in the Tapovan-Joshimath area since the tragedy struck on Sunday. She also leads the ITBP in various multi-agency meetings being held close to ground zero,” a senior ITBP officer stated.
The DIG is assisted by the Commanding Officer of the first ITBP battalion based mostly in Joshimath (Chamoli district), Benudhar Nayak.
Nayak, the officer stated, has a wealthy profile as he has served for lengthy within the mountains.
He was posted in Uttarakhand when the huge flash floods occurred in 2013.
“That stint is coming in handy to deal with the current tragedy,” the officer stated.
Nayak was instrumental in shortly organising a crew of over 400 personnel from his battalion and close by models to launch the rescue operation after a potential glacier burst led to a flash flood within the Alaknanda river system and its quick swirling waters ravaged a lot of villages within the border district of Chamoli and two hydro energy vegetation.
At least 35 our bodies have been recovered until now whereas about 170 are nonetheless lacking.
The pressure has additionally placed on job the personnel of its specialised mountaineering and ski institute positioned in Auli close to Joshimath to undertake the operations.
These combat-ready personnel are working underneath the command of Deputy Commandant Nitesh Sharma.
“Sharma, a commando trained officer, was the one who first went into the small tunnel on Sunday from where 12 NTPC Tapovan workers were saved by the ITBP on Sunday,” one other officer stated.
“All these officers have been camping in the area since the day the tragedy struck and they are as eager to find success as the distraught family members of the about 30-35 men who are trapped inside the tunnel,” the second officer stated.