Kavach

Published By: Shahrukh ShahLast Updated: February 11, 2024, 09:56 ISTRepresentational image. (File photo)The minister informed the Upper House that Kavach tenders have been awarded for Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah corridors, approximately 3,000 route km.More than Rs 557 crore has been allocated in the interim Budget 2024-25 for the installation of the railways’ anti-collision device ‘Kavach’, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Rajya Sabha on Friday.In a written response to questions posed by Samajwadi Party…

In what could eliminate human error-induced train collisions, the Indian Railways is gearing up to install Kavach technology in its entire network of 68,000 route km, Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw has said. He added that the indigenously developed technology also has the potential to be exported in five years.“In 2024, we will install Kavach in 2,500 km route. And from 2025 onward, we will be deploying it in 5,000 km every year till we cover our entire rail network of 68,000 km,” Vaishnaw told ET in an interview.…

Image used for representational purpose onlyRailway Board Chairman and CEO Anil Kumar Lahoti on Sunday inspected the working of 'Kavach', an indigenous automatic train protection system developed by Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO).The South Central Railways has been closely associated with its development since inception, facilitating its trials, and also deploying Kavach extensively over its rail network.Lahoti participated in the first-hand demonstration of Kavach between Lingampalli and Chitgidda…

Last Updated: February 14, 2023, 16:39 ISTKavach is an advanced signalling system. To prevent head-on collisions of trains, North Eastern Railway has decided to install the Kavach Automatic Train Protection System (ATC).Indian Railways, in a bid to avoid train collisions, has decided to install an advanced signalling system called ‘Kavach’ on various routes of the North Eastern Railway. This Indian technology has many features that will hinder trains from collisions, which is usually one of the main causes of accidents on…

The Indian Railways will armour 3,000 km of its network covering the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah routes with the protection system Kavach at an estimated cost of Rs 1,000 crore to prevent train collisions, officials said on Tuesday. The anti-train collision system or Kavach, which literally means armour, is being promoted by the Railways as the world’s cheapest automatic train collision protection system which enables it to stop on their own if the digital system notices any manual error like “jumping” of the red signal…