{"id":13597,"date":"2023-08-01T06:04:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T00:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13597"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T00:10:36","slug":"railway-protection-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/railway-protection-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Protection Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Railway Protection Force:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The history of the <strong>RPF dates back to 1882<\/strong> when various Railway companies appointed their own guards for protection of Railway property.<\/li>\n<li>It was declared as <strong>statutory force in the year 1957<\/strong> by an enactment of Parliament and subsequently declared as an armed force of the Union of India in the year 1985.<\/li>\n<li>In 2003, the RPF partially took up the duties of escorting passenger trains and access control at the railway stations\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>It is led by a <strong>director-general.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an armed force under the operational and <strong>administrative control of the Union Ministry of Railways.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is tasked with <strong>protecting and securing railway property<\/strong>, the passenger areas, and the passengers themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>What is the Government Railway Police (GRP)?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The GRP is a <strong>part of the district police force<\/strong>, reporting to the state government.<\/li>\n<li>It works alongside the RPF, and should, under ideal circumstances, complement and strengthen its operations.<\/li>\n<li>They are responsible generally for the <strong>prevention and detection of crime on railways<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is statutory body?<\/h3>\n<p>A statutory body, also known as a statutory authority or public authority, is an organization or agency established by law through an Act of Parliament or a legislative body. These bodies are created to perform specific functions or duties on behalf of the government or to regulate certain activities in a particular field. Statutory bodies have legal powers and functions defined by the legislation that brought them into existence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/everyday-explainers\/rpf-man-held-for-killing-4-on-train-rpf-different-from-grp-8869115\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>RPF man held for killing 4 on train: What is this force, and how is it different from the GRP?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Protection Force was declared as statutory force in the year 1957 by an enactment of Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13597","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\/13597","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=13597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}