Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that Kavach, an automatic train protection system developed indigenously, has been implemented in three sections in the South Central Railway zone along with 139 locomotives. Responding to questions from Congress MPs Benny Behanan and Kumbakudi Sudhakaran, Vaishnaw stated that Kavach has been deployed on 1,465 route km and 139 locomotives on the South Central Railway. The sections where Kavach is operational include Lingamapalli-Vikarabad-Wadi and Vikarabad-Bidar section (265 Rkm); Manmad-Mudkhed-Dhone-Guntkal section (959 Rkm); and Bidar-Parbhani section (241 Rkm).
