{"id":11990,"date":"2024-07-12T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11990"},"modified":"2025-03-30T06:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T01:10:28","slug":"operation-amanat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/operation-amanat\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Amanat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Operation Amanat:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Under the Operation Amanat initiative, the <strong>Railway Protection Force\u00a0<\/strong> has taken a novel <strong>initiative to make it easier for the passengers to get back their lost luggage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It helps to track lost belongings of passengers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>details of lost luggage<\/strong> along with photos <strong>are uploaded by RPF personnel of the respective Divisions. <\/strong>The details are <strong>uploaded in the web portal<\/strong> https:\/\/wr.indianrailways.gov.in\/ in the tab of divisions under the link \u201cMission Amanat \u2013 RPF\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Passengers can check whether their luggage<\/strong> which went missing or <strong>was lost in railway premises or trains <\/strong>is available at the Lost Property Office centres at stations.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Railway Protection Force (RPF):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>RPF is a <strong>security force of India<\/strong> entrusted with <strong>protecting railway passengers, passenger area and railway property<\/strong> of the Indian Railways.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>established by the Railway Protection Force Act, 1957.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This is <strong>only central armed police force<\/strong> (CAPF, commonly known as Para-Military force) which has <strong>power to arrest, investigate and prosecute criminals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>under the authority of Ministry of Railways (India).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>All the officers<\/strong> of RPF <strong>are members of the Indian Railway Protection Force Service (IRPFS)<\/strong> and are <strong>recruited through UPSC Civil Services<\/strong> Examination.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>headed by the Director General (DG).<\/strong> However, the <strong>post of Director-General<\/strong> of RPF is <strong>held on deputation by a senior Indian Police Service (IPS)<\/strong> officer.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Q1)\u00a0What is the Railway Protection Force (RPF)?<\/p>\n<p>RPF is a security force of India entrusted with protecting railway passengers, passenger area and railway property of the Indian Railways.It was established by the Railway Protection Force Act, 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepressjournal.in\/mumbai\/operation-amanat-rpf-recovers-assets-worth-5113-lakh-of-119-passengers-in-may-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Operation Amanat: RPF Recovers Assets Worth \u20b951.13 Lakh Of 119 Passengers In May 2023<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Operation Amanat initiative, the Railway Protection Force  has taken a novel initiative to make it easier for the passengers to get back their lost luggage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}