New Delhi, June 22 -- Indian Railways has approved the provision of the indigenous Kavach automatic train protection system on 631 Route Kilometres (RKm) of East Coast Railway at Rs 270 crore.
The project covers six important railway sections of East Coast Railway, namely Baghuapal-Budhapank, Haridaspur-Paradeep, Khurda Road (KUR)-Balangir, Naupada-Gunupur, Lanjigarh Road-Junagarh, and Bobbili-Salur.
The sanctioned work forms part of Indian Railways' larger programme for deployment of Kavach with LTE-based communication backbone across the railway network.
Kavach is India's indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system designed to enhance safety by preventing signal passing at danger (SPAD), overspeeding, and train colli...