On World Security Day, Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw performed a stay testing of Kavach, an indigenously developed, automated safety know-how for trains.
The check concerned two trains travelling in the direction of one another at full pace and halting robotically as soon as it seen the opposing prepare on the identical line inside a prescribed distance. The minister was at Secunderabad to participate within the trial, and have a first-hand expertise of Kavach.
‘Kavach’, which accurately means armour, is being promoted by the Railways because the world’s most cost-effective automated prepare collision safety system.
Kavach system permits the trains to cease on their very own if the digital system notices any guide error like “leaping” of the purple sign or another malfunction. As soon as carried out, it’ll price Rs 50 lakh per kilometre to function in comparison with about Rs 2 crore worldwide, as reported by India At this time.
The indigenously developed Computerized Practice Safety (ATP) system has been constructed to assist the Railways obtain the aim of “zero accidents”.
Kavach, system sign is handed at hazard (SPAD) when a prepare passes a stop-signal. As soon as the system is activated, all trains inside a 5-km vary will halt to guard trains on adjoining tracks.
Kavach was introduced within the 2022 union Finances as part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative. As per PTI studies, 2,000 km of rail community is deliberate to be introduced underneath the indigenous world-class know-how, ‘Kavach’, for security and capability augmentation in 2022-23.
(With company inputs)
