Ministry of Railways Approves ₹341 Crore Kavach Project for Automatic Train Protection

Key facts

• The Ministry of Railways approved a ₹341 crore project to expand Kavach, an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system designed to prevent train collisions and over-speeding.
• A sanctioned cost of ₹140 crore was allocated for the installation of Kavach Version 4.0 on 598 Route km (RKM) across 48 block sections of the Ahmedabad Division of Western Railway (WR) in Gujarat.
• The project includes the implementation of the ATP system on 811 RKM in the Ambala Division of Northern Railway (NR) at a sanctioned cost of ₹201 crore.
• The NR project covers key corridors connecting Haryana, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh, including sections such as Ambala Cantonment-Ludhiana, Sirhind-Daulatpur Chowk, and Rajpura-Bathinda-Shri Ganganagar.
• Kavach Version 4.0 complies with SIL-4 safety standards and provides protection against Signal Passing at Danger (SPAD) and collisions while monitoring over-speeding in adverse weather conditions.