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Detailed explanation-1: -Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has created its first mountain-warfare training centre in northeast India in which state? Notes: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has created its first mountain-warfare training centre in northeast India in Dombang, Sikkim.

Detailed explanation-2: -The new centre has been established in remote Dombang, abutting the LAC, and is located at a height of 10,040 ft in Sikkim that shares a 220 km front of the India-China LAC.

Detailed explanation-3: -ITBP has created its first mountain warfare training facility in northeast India. Mountaineering and Skiing Institute (M&SI) debuted at Auli, close to Joshimath, in 1973–74. The building was constructed close to 50 years after M&SI’s founding.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has created its first mountain-warfare training centre in northeast India, its second overall, to skill its troops in high-altitude combat and survival tactics as part of their mandate to guard the Line of Actual Control with China.

Detailed explanation-5: -The about three-month long training is being imparted by seasoned Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) trainers who hone new recruits at the basic training centre (BTC) here for battle inoculation just before getting commissioned into the border force.