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More than 40,000 technicians, operators and engineers person been trained connected Kavach, the indigenous automatic bid extortion technology. This includes 30,000 loco pilots and adjunct loco pilots. Courses person been designed successful collaboration with the Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications (IRISET), Secunderabad, informed Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to the Rajya Sabha connected Friday.
Kavach is simply a technology-intensive system, which requires information certification of the highest bid (SIL-4). It immunodeficiency the loco aviator successful moving of trains wrong specified velocity limits done automatic exertion of brakes successful lawsuit they neglect to bash truthful and besides helps the trains tally safely during inclement weather.
It involves installation of ‘Station Kavach’ astatine each station, artifact section, RFID tags passim the way length, telecom towers passim the section, laying of Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) on the track, proviso of ‘Loco Kavach’ connected each locomotive successful the Indian Railways network.
The outgo for proviso of way broadside including presumption instrumentality of Kavach is astir ₹50 lakh/km and outgo for proviso of instrumentality connected locomotives is astir ₹80 lakh/loco. South Central Railway (SCR) has deployed Kavach mentation 3.2 connected 1,465 way km and based connected the acquisition gained, further improvements were made. Kavach 4.0 was approved by the Research Designs & Standards Organisation, past year.
Major betterment successful Version 4.0 includes accrued determination accuracy, improved accusation of awesome aspects successful bigger yards, presumption to presumption interface connected OFC and nonstop interface to existing physics interlocking system, said the Minister.
Kavach Version 4.0 has been successfully commissioned connected 738 Route/km on Palwal – Mathura- Nagda conception (633 Rkm) connected Delhi – Mumbai way and Howrah–Bardhaman conception (105 Rkm) Delhi – Howrah way and successful the equilibrium sections of Delhi – Mumbai & Delhi – Howrah corridors. Track broadside Kavach implementation enactment has been taken up connected 15,512 RKm, covering each the precocious density sections, said Mr. Vaishnaw.
Bids person been invited for equipping different 9,069 locomotives with Kavach mentation 4.0. Funds utilised connected Kavach works until October this twelvemonth is ₹2,354.36 crore and allocation this twelvemonth is ₹1,673.19 crore, helium added.
