Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw mentioned Kavach’s journey started in 2014-15. (doc)
Up to now, Kavach has been deployed on 1,465 strains and 144 locomotives (together with EMU rakes) on South Central Railway. Ashwini Vaishnaw mentioned bids have been accepted for Delhi-Chennai, Mumbai-Chennai sections and all automated signalised sections
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw mentioned on Wednesday that after getting the approval, the Railway Ministry is able to set up Kavach on 10,000 locomotives and all new tasks will now be geared up with the safety system.
He additionally advised the media that the set up work of Kavach on the 2 high-density routes Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah will probably be accomplished throughout this monetary yr.
“After upgrading to Kavach 4.0, segmentation debugging will start instantly,” he mentioned.
Kavach 4.0 covers all terrains of the railway community – from deserts to forests, from mountains to coasts, from cities to rural areas.
Up to now, Kavach has been deployed on 1,465 strains and 144 locomotives (together with electrical multi-set rakes) on South Central Railway, based on the ministry’s newest figures. Tenders have been accepted for Delhi-Chennai and Mumbai-Chennai sections and all automated signalised sections, he mentioned.
Final month, News18 reported that the Analysis Design and Requirements Group (RDSO) had authorised Kavach 4.0 and is now contemplating last set up. Nevertheless, as expertise advances, there will probably be room for upgrades sooner or later. “With the approval of Kavach 4.0 by RDSO, the Ministry of Railways has authorised the set up of Kavach 4.0 on 10,000 locomotives. It will facilitate the speedy set up of Kavach throughout the complete community in a number of years.
Sharing the Kawachi schedule, the minister mentioned the journey began in 2014-15 when a 250-km pilot scheme part was put in on the South-Central Railway.
In 2015-16, discipline trials had been carried out for the primary time on passenger trains, whereas model 3.2 of the Kavach specs was finalized in 2017-18. The following yr, RDSO authorised three corporations to put in the expertise.
In July 2020, Kavach was introduced because the nationwide automated practice safety system and by March 2022, the system had been put in on an additional 1,200 kilometers of line.
कवरच
Kavach is an indigenously developed automated practice safety (ATP) system. It is a extremely technology-intensive system that requires the best degree of security certification.
The expertise helps locomotive operators function trains inside prescribed velocity limits, robotically applies the brakes if the locomotive operator fails to take action, and may assist trains function safely in hostile climate situations.
Kavach has been licensed to the best security integrity degree – SIL4 – by an unbiased security evaluation company and makes use of its non-SIL performance to scale back the opportunity of practice collisions on avenue sections and station routes. Subsequently, Kavach has the potential to be adopted by different nations.
The ministry knowledgeable the Lok Sabha final month that the progress of main tasks associated to Kawachi is as follows: laying of optical cables (4,275 kilometers); set up of telecommunications towers (364); provision of apparatus at stations (285); provision of locomotive tools (319 locomotives) ) and set up trackside tools (1,384 route kilometers).
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