New Delhi, June 15 -- Indian Railways has approved a Rs 201 crore project for the installation of Kavach, the indigenous Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, across the remaining broad gauge sections of the Ambala Division of Northern Railway.

The project will cover 811 route kilometres and has been sanctioned under the railway's programme for deploying Kavach with an LTE-based communication backbone on the remaining routes of the national network.

The approved work will extend Kavach coverage to key rail corridors including Ambala Cantonment-Ludhiana, Kalka-Chandigarh-New Morinda-Sahnewal, Sirhind-Daulatpur Chowk, Rajpura-Bathinda-Shri Ganganagar, and Ludhiana-Dhuri-Jakhal sections.

These routes form important passenger and freigh...