Mumbai, June 17 -- In a major step towards modernising signalling infrastructure and strengthening railway safety, Indian Railways has approved a Rs 405 crore signalling upgradation project on Eastern Railway involving the replacement of relay-based interlocking systems with Electronic Interlocking (EI) at 32 stations. This includes 25 Panel Interlocking (PI)/Route Relay Interlocking (RRI) stations and 7 Intermediate Block Signalling (IBS) locations on High Density Network (HDN) and Highly Utilised Network (HUN) routes. The project forms part of Indian Railways' broader strategy to modernise signalling systems on critical routes and improve reliability, safety and operational performance across the network.

Many of the existing signallin...