{"id":581996,"date":"2023-06-05T09:38:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T04:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=581996"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T05:50:18","slug":"odisha-train-accident-has-nothing-to-do-with-kavach-railway-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw-on-what-caused-the-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/odisha-train-accident-has-nothing-to-do-with-kavach-railway-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw-on-what-caused-the-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Odisha train accident has nothing to do with Kavach&#8217;: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on what caused the tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refuting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s allegation that the Odisha train accident could have been averted with a Kavach (anti-collision) device, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Sunday that a &#8220;change in electronic interlocking&#8221; was the real reason for the tragic train accident in Odisha&#8217;s Balasore. <\/p>\n<p>Electronic interlocking is an arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements between trains through an arrangement of tracks. It is basically a safety measure to prevent signals from being changed in an improper sequence. The aim of this system is that no train gets the signal to proceed unless the route is proven safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refuting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s allegation that the Odisha train accident could have been averted with a Kavach (anti-collision) device, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Sunday that a &#8220;change in electronic interlocking&#8221; was the real reason for the tragic train accident in Odisha&#8217;s Balasore. Electronic interlocking is an arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements between trains through an arrangement of tracks. It is basically a safety measure to prevent signals from being changed in an improper sequence. The aim of this system is that no train gets the signal to proceed unless the route is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}