2,000 km of railway network will be brought under Kavach for safety and capacity augmentation in 2022-23, as a part of Prime minister’s Atmanirbhar Bharat.
The trial of the ‘Kavach’ functioning system between Gullaguda and Chitgidda Railway stations in Telangana was examined by the Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav.
Kavach is designed to protect trains by preventing them from passing the Danger (Red) signal and colliding.
It prevents collisions between two locomotives equipped with a functional KAVACH system by automatically activating the train braking system if the driver fails to regulate the train according to the speed regulations.