Maligaon, March 5 (MExN): Union Minister of Railways, Communication and Electronics & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, inspected the trial of ‘Kavach’ working system between Gullaguda-Chitgidda Railway stations on Lingampalli-Vikarabad section in Secunderabad Division of South Central Railway.
An extensive trial of ‘Kavach’ was conducted during the trail, a press release issued by Sabyasachi De, Chief Public Relations Officer, NFR stated. The Minister, VK Tripathi, Chairman and CEO, Railway Board were onboard the locomotive which moved from Gullaguda towards Chitgidda. During the trial, Head-on-collision situation was created as both the locomotives were moving towards each other.
The KAVACH is an indigenously developed ATP system by Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) in collaboration with Indian industry and trials facilitated by South Central Railway to achieve the corporate objective of safety in train operations across Indian Railways. It is a state of the art electronic system of Safety Integrity Level - 4 standards.
KAVACH is meant to provide protection by preventing trains to pass the signal at Danger (Red) and avoid collision. It activates the train braking system automatically if the driver fails to control the train as per the speed restrictions. In addition, it prevents collision between two Locomotives equipped with functional KAVACH system.
‘Kavach’ is one of the cheapest, Safety Integrity Level 4 (SIL-4) certified technologies with the probability of error is 1 in 10,000 years. Also, it opens avenues of export of this indigenous technology for Railways.
KAVACH over NFR
As per the budget announcement for the FY 2022-23, implementation of Kavach over N. F. Railway has been sanctioned for HDN and HUN routes. This indigenously developed train protection system will be implemented in the HDN route covering around 1827 KM length up to Guwahati from Delhi. Similarly, HUN routes of around 1490 KM length (including a portion over Eastern Railway) spreading over all the divisions of N. F. Railway will also be brought under Kavach on priority basis.
As a part of Atmanirbhar Bharat, 2,000 km of network will be brought under Kavach for safety and capacity augmentation in 2022-23. Around 34,000 Kms of network will be brought under Kavach.
