The Railways will armour 3,000 km of its network covering the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah routes with the protection system Kavach at an estimated cost of Rs 1000 crore to prevent train collisions, officials said on Tuesday.
The anti-train collision system or Kavach, which literally means armour, is being promoted by the Railways as the world’s cheapest automatic train collision protection system which enables it to stop on their own if the digital system notices any manual error like “jumping” of the red signal or any other malfunction.
