Indian Railways has approved two major Kavach safety projects worth ₹341 crore for the Ambala Division of Northern Railway and the Ahmedabad Division of Western Railway, covering a combined 1,409 route kilometres.
The Ministry of Railways said that the projects have been approved under the umbrella programme for the provision of Kavach with LTE-based communication backbone on balance routes of Indian Railways.
For the Ambala Division of Northern Railway, the Railways has sanctioned ₹201 crore for the installation of Kavach on 811 route kilometres of balance Broad Gauge sections.
The project will cover key routes including Ambala Cantonment-Ludhiana, Kalka-Chandigarh-New Morinda-Sahnewal, Sirhind-Daulatpur Chowk, Rajpura-Bathinda-Shri Ganganagar and Ludhiana-Dhuri-Jakhal.
These routes connect important parts of Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and handle significant passenger and freight movement across the region.
In Gujarat, Indian Railways has approved a ₹140 crore project for installing Kavach Version 4.0 on 598 route kilometres covering 48 block sections of the Ahmedabad Division of Western Railway.
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Earlier, Kavach work had already been sanctioned on about 702 route kilometres of the Ahmedabad Division.
With the latest approval, the remaining sections of the division will also be brought under Kavach, expanding the deployment of the indigenous train protection system across the division.
Kavach is an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection system designed to improve operational safety.
It helps prevent Signal Passing at Danger, automatically applies brakes when required, controls train speed in critical conditions and reduces the risk of collisions.
Indian Railways is progressively expanding Kavach across its network as part of its efforts to strengthen safety, improve reliability and modernise train operations on important rail corridors.
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