Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has announced that ‘Kavach’ System, the anti-collision test conducted by the Indian Railways to check the indigenous developed system to avoid rail accidents is successful.
- The indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, Kavach, was designed to help the Railways achieve – zero accidents. ‘Kavach’ automatically stopped the train before 380 metres of other Locomotive at the front.
- The test involved two trains – one with the railway minister on board and the other with the Chairman of the Railway Board – hurtle towards each other at full speed.
- Both the trains stopped 380 metres apart. The Kavach will be the world’s cheapest automatic train collision protection system.
- The railway authorities informed that once implemented, it will cost 50 lakh rupees per kilometre to operate compared to about 2 crore rupees worldwide.
- The KAVACH is an indigenously developed ATP system by Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) in collaboration with Indian industry and trials facilitated by South Central Railway to achieve the corporate objective of safety in train operations across Indian Railways.
- It is a state of the art electronic system of Safety Integrity Level – 4 standards.
Features of ‘Kavach’
- Prevention of Signal Passing at Danger (SPAD)
- Continuous update of Movement Authority with display of signal aspects in Driver Machine Interface (DMI) / Loco Pilot operation cum Indication Panel (LPOCIP)
- Automatic Braking for Prevention of Over Speeding
- Auto Whistling while approaching Level Crossing Gates
- Prevention of collision between two Locomotives equipped with functional KAVACH
- SoS Messages during emergency situations
- Centralized live monitoring of Train movements through Network Monitor System.
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