2,000 km of rail network will be brought under ‘Kavach’ in 2022-’23: Railway Minister

‘Kavach’, the indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, will be deployed across the entire rail network beginning with 2,000 km in the 2022-23 fiscal and will be rolled out in 4,000 to 5,000 km every subsequent year,

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday.

‘Kavach’, which literally means armour, is being promoted by the Railways as the world’s cheapest automatic train collision protection system.