Arun Kumar nominated as Vice-Chairman of International Union of Railways

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.

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Arun 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.

The Security Platform of the Union is empowered to formulate policy positions for matters relating to security, property and installation in the rail sector.

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.

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 “rail diplomacy”.

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.

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.