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The Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronic & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha said to prevent accidents due to human error resulting in Signal Passing at danger and over-speeding, the Indian Railways has indigenously developed an automatic train protection system rechristened as ‘Kavach’ (Train Collision Avoidance System)
it has been decided to implement ‘Kavach’ in a phased manner considering the complexities involved in implementation, which require all Rolling Stock, way side stations and track to be equipped with ‘Kavach’
The ‘Kavach’ system include controlling speed of trains by automatic application of brakes on approach of turnouts, repeating of signal aspects in cab, which is useful for auto whistling at level crossing gates, higher speeds & foggy weathers, and
Till date ‘Kavach’ has been deployed for 1,455 Route Kms on South Central Railway with 77 nos. of locomotives. At present the, ‘Kavach’ work is in progress on Delhi-Mumbai & Delhi –Howrah corridors
