Kavach rollout approved across 1,409 km in Ambala and Ahmedabad divisions

Indian Railways has approved Rs 341 crore for the expansion of the Kavach train protection system across Ambala and Ahmedabad divisions, covering 1,409 route kilometres to improve rail safety and operations.

In Short

• Railways approves Rs 341 crore for Kavach expansion
• Project covers 1,409 route kilometres in two divisions
• Kavach helps prevent collisions and overspeeding

Indian Railways has approved projects worth Rs 341 crore to expand the Kavach system across the Ambala Division of Northern Railway and the Ahmedabad Division of Western Railway. The move will bring the indigenous Automatic Train Protection (ATP) technology to more busy passenger and freight routes, covering a total of 1,409 route kilometres.

The approval is part of the Railways’ ongoing effort to improve train safety, reduce the risk of collisions and strengthen operations on key corridors.

The projects will be implemented under the umbrella programme for providing Kavach with an LTE-based communication backbone on the remaining routes of the railway network.

AMBALA DIVISION PROJECT TO COVER 811 KM

The larger of the two projects has been approved at a cost of Rs 201 crore and will cover 811 route kilometres in the Ambala Division. The work will include the Ambala Cantonment–Ludhiana, Kalka–Chandigarh–New Morinda–Sahnewal, Sirhind–Daulatpur Chowk, Rajpura–Bathinda–Shri Ganganagar and Ludhiana–Dhuri–Jakhal sections. These routes connect Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and carry heavy passenger and freight traffic.

AHMEDABAD DIVISION TO GET FULLER KAVACH COVERAGE

In Ahmedabad Division, Railways has approved a Rs 140 crore project for the installation of Kavach Version 4.0 across 598 route kilometres covering 48 block sections.

Earlier, Kavach work had already been sanctioned on around 702 route kilometres in the division. With this latest approval, the remaining sections will also come under the safety system, allowing wider deployment across the division.

HOW THE KAVACH SYSTEM IMPROVES TRAIN SAFETY

Kavach is an Indian-developed Automatic Train Protection system designed to improve railway safety. It helps prevent Signal Passing at Danger (SPAD), automatically applies brakes when unsafe situations arise, controls train speed in critical conditions and reduces the risk of train collisions.

The expansion of the Kavach system forms part of Indian Railways’ broader push to improve safety, reliability and efficiency on high-density and strategically important routes across the country.

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