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Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025) informed the Lok Sabha that the indigenous anti-collision strategy Kavach information strategy has been afloat commissioned connected implicit 2,000 km of the obstruction network.
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In a reply during the Question Hour, Mr. Vaishnaw said that Kavach was a highly analyzable Automatic Train Protection (ATP) strategy comprising 5 large components, including continuous laying of optical fibre cablegram (OFC) on tracks and the installation of telecom towers.
The Minister said the Indian Railways has truthful acold laid 7,129 km of OFC, installed 860 telecom towers, connected 767 stations to information centres, deployed trackside instrumentality on 3,413 km, and equipped 4,154 locomotives with the system. “Complete commissioning has crossed 2,000 km,” helium said, adding that the gait of enactment was “very fast”.
The Minister besides said astir 40,000 technicians and operators person been trained, underlining that Kavach is simply a “totally caller and precise complex” system.
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On obstruction accidents
Responding to a supplementary by DMK MP Kalanidhi Veeraswamy connected obstruction accidents, Mr. Vaishnaw said consequential accidents person fallen by astir 90 per cent — from 135 successful 2014 to 11 now.
In effect to different supplementary question, the Railway Minister said redeveloping railway stations without disrupting bid services is simply a “complex task”, but halting obstruction postulation is not a viable enactment successful India.
He noted that respective countries suspend obstruction operations for 3 to 4 years during presumption redevelopment. “In India, wherever 7.5 crore passengers question by train, this is simply not possible,” Mr. Vaishnaw said.
He said stations are being upgraded nether the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, which adopts a long-term, phased attack based connected maestro plans. So far, 1,337 stations person been identified nether the scheme, and redevelopment enactment astatine 155 stations has already been completed, according to an authoritative connection issued earlier this month.
