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Kavach 4.0 contracts awarded for 14,954 km of rail routes
The Indian Railways has awarded contracts to install Kavach 4.0 across 14,954 km of high-density routes, including the Golden Quadrilateral and Golden Diagonal, The Hindu reports. The automatic train protection system has…
The Story in Brief
The Indian Railways has awarded contracts to install Kavach 4.0 across 14,954 km of high-density routes, including the Golden Quadrilateral and Golden Diagonal, The Hindu reports. The automatic train protection system has been commissioned on the 324-km Mathura-Kota section, the first cleared by an Independent Safety Assessor in July.
Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told the Rajya Sabha that 1,290 locomotives and 708 stations have been equipped so far, while 4,005 km of trackside systems have been commissioned. The railway has laid 5,867 km of optical fibre cable and spent about Rs 2,015 crore. A parallel programme aims to equip 10,000 locomotives. Trackside equipment costs about Rs 50 lakh per km, and each locomotive system about Rs 80 lakh.
The Indian Opinion
Claims that Kavach has already made the network fully safe would be premature, just as dismissing it because deployment is incomplete would be unfair. The useful measure is operational coverage, not tender announcements or training numbers. Railways should publish route-wise commissioning data and report how often the system applies automatic brakes or prevents signal violations. The next credible test is whether the promised 15,000 km is equipped, tested and working in daily service, not merely contracted.
Source: thehindu.com
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