Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nArun Kumar, presently serving as Director General of Railway Protection Force (RPF) will take over as vice-chairman of UIC Security Platform from July 2022 to July 2024. The decision was taken in the 96th General Assembly of the Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Security Platform of the Union is empowered to formulate policy positions for matters relating to security, property and installation in the rail sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He will be working at the prestigious global body, some of whose members are China, Japan, Russia and the European countries among others, for two years, starting 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UIC is the global platform for railway systems working on inter-operability, developing common technical standards for railways across the world and strengthening what is called \u201crail diplomacy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India has future projects like international rail linkages to Russia and the likes which will get well represented at the global stage owing to this development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With Chinese railway hardly ever sharing any data, Indian Railways is a significant member of the UIC as the largest mover of passengers and freight after China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arun Kumar, Director General of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), has been nominated to be the vice-chairman of the Security Platform of the Paris-based Union Internationale Des Chemins \/International Union of Railways (UIC). He is a 1985-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Arun Kumar, presently serving as Director General […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":25777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[66],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-25776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2020","tag-railway-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25778,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776\/revisions\/25778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25776"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=25776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}