{"id":11371,"date":"2016-05-10T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T09:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=11371"},"modified":"2016-05-10T09:54:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T09:54:03","slug":"kumar-rajesh-chandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/kumar-rajesh-chandra\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumar Rajesh Chandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question: Recently who has been appointed as chief of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) by the appointments Committee of the Cabinet?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Dinesh Pathak<br \/>\n(b) S. K Bhagat<br \/>\n(c) Santosh Banerjee<br \/>\n(d) Kumar Rajesh Chandra<br \/>\n<strong>Ans. (d)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 5 May 2016 the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has appointed Senior IPS officer Kumar Rajesh Chandra as chief of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).<\/li>\n<li>He is a 1985 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.<\/li>\n<li>He has been appointed in place of IPS officer G S Malhi, who had completed his tenure as BCAS chief in November 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is the aviation security wing of the government.<\/li>\n<li>After the hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight on 10 September 1976, the Pande Committee recommended establishing an aviation security department.<\/li>\n<li>Following the recommendations BCAS, which acts as regulatory authority for civil aviation security, was initially set up as a cell in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in January 1978.<\/li>\n<li>Later it was reorganised into an independent department on April 1, 1987 under the Ministry of Civil Aviation after the Kanishka tragedy in June 1985.<\/li>\n<li>The main responsibility of BCAS is to lay down standards and measures in respect of security of civil flights at international and domestic airports in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/Kumar-Rajesh-Chandra-appointed-aviation-security-wing-chief\/articleshow\/52133789.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/Kumar-Rajesh-Chandra-appointed-aviation-security-wing-chief\/articleshow\/52133789.cms<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/kumar-rajesh-chandra-appointed-aviation-security-wing-chief-116050501469_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/kumar-rajesh-chandra-appointed-aviation-security-wing-chief-116050501469_1.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcasindia.nic.in\/aboutus\/aboutus.html#history\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bcasindia.nic.in\/aboutus\/aboutus.html#history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently who has been appointed as chief of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) by the appointments Committee of the Cabinet? (a) Dinesh Pathak (b) S. K Bhagat (c) Santosh Banerjee (d) Kumar Rajesh Chandra Ans. (d) Related facts: On 5 May 2016 the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has appointed Senior IPS officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}