Friday, December 08, 2006
\nCHAIRMAN, RAILWAY BOARD ELECTED AS CHAIRMAN, UIC <\/p>\n
FIRST NON-EUROPEAN TO BE ELECTED TO THE INTERNATIONAL BODY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shri J.P. Batra, Chairman, Railway Board has been elected as Chairman of the International Union of Railways (UIC), a prestigious world-wide organization for international cooperation among railways and promotion of rail transport mode, headquartered in Paris, France. <\/p>\n
For the past one year, the organization is gearing up for new challenges, in particular, railway liberalization, increasing competition from other modes, the growing economic constraints on railways together with the challenge of globalization of the transport market which creates new opportunities for railways. Shri Batra, who is also presently the Chairman of World Executive Council (WEC) of UIC, an executive body of Chief Executives from different geographical regions of the world and responsible for UIC activities at global level, had led the transformation of UIC to meet the aspirations of all its members across the globe.<\/p>\n
The new UIC will focus on the development of intercontinental freight corridors (N.E.W. Corridor, etc.), cooperation within the Metre Gauge, Broad Gauge groups, etc., interactive seminars between customers (railways) and suppliers (world industry), projects in the field of training and strategic management i.e. creation of Inter Railway Strategic Management Institute (IRMSI).<\/p>\n
He is the first non-European to be elected for the prestigious assignment. The organization founded in 1922, has 171 members including railways, rail operators, infrastructure managers, railway service providers, public transport companies, etc. spread over all five continents.<\/p>\n
Major functions undertaken by UIC involve promoting technical cooperation between its members and maintaining the overall coherence of the railway system, notably at pan-European level, and achieving interoperability which is one of the keys for bolstering rail transport competitiveness. In this context, UIC is responsible for:<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Putting forward specifications and standards to standardization bodies;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Acting as a technical platform to support the work of railway associations;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Spearheading international rail cooperation projects which dovetail with its core technical tasks;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Defining common provisions and recommendations intended for its members; and<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Concluding agreements with Intergovernmental organizations and other trade organizations responsible for transport matters or which cooperate with the railways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}