{"id":620897,"date":"2023-12-04T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T05:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=620897"},"modified":"2023-12-04T10:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T05:18:54","slug":"safety-first-how-well-can-kavach-protect-you-during-your-train-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/safety-first-how-well-can-kavach-protect-you-during-your-train-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety first: How well can Kavach protect you during your train travel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been quite a long journey. Lalit Mansukhani remembers the day very vividly: February 15, 2016. A group of railway signal engineers, including him, were over the moon when an indigenously developed signalling equipment was successfully tested on a passenger train that chugged along the Telangana-Karnataka border. By then Mansukhani had spent over four years in a laboratory in Lucknow\u2019s Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), a railway arm, to figure out an alternative to the popular European Train Control System (ETCS). The engineer, who had prior experience working with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) before joining the Railways in 1992 and who was on deputation to a project on the UK Railway signalling in the early 2000s, had been given a free rein for a cut-and-try testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been quite a long journey. Lalit Mansukhani remembers the day very vividly: February 15, 2016. A group of railway signal engineers, including him, were over the moon when an indigenously developed signalling equipment was successfully tested on a passenger train that chugged along the Telangana-Karnataka border. By then Mansukhani had spent over four years in a laboratory in Lucknow\u2019s Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), a railway arm, to figure out an alternative to the popular European Train Control System (ETCS). The engineer, who had prior experience working with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) before joining the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-620897","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\/620897","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}