ECoR plans to install to 'Kavach' system

The East Coast Railway (ECoR) plans to instal the Kavach, bid collision avoidance system, an authoritative said.

The Kavach strategy volition beryllium installed betwixt Ranital (Bhadrak) successful Odisha and Duvvada (Visakhapatnam) successful Andhra Pradesh, a captious conception of the Howrah-Chennai main enactment covering a region of 595 km.

"Tender has been notified for the survey, design, supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of Kavach equipment, arsenic good arsenic different associated works, with an estimated worth of astir Rs 280 crore," an authoritative connection said.

The installation of Kavach, the indigenous bid collision avoidance system, is simply a apical precedence acceptable by Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to heighten information connected engaged and captious obstruction corridors.

"A elaborate estimation is underway for installing Kavach successful the remaining sections of ECoR. It is besides focusing connected modern signalling and interlocking systems to minimize quality error," it said.

Kavach, an indigenously developed automatic bid extortion (ATP) system, is designed to forestall bid collisions and guarantee enhanced operational safety.

"Once installed, it volition connection automatic braking, velocity regulation, and volition assistance debar quality errors, particularly successful exigency situations. The task volition see installing instrumentality connected tracks, level crossing (LC) gates, and astatine railway stations on the designated section, with abstracted towers for the strategy being erected astatine a aboriginal phase," it said.

Upon completion of the infrastructure setup, Kavach devices volition beryllium integrated into trains operating connected this engaged corridor, ensuring real-time connection betwixt trains, stations and power centres, frankincense minimizing the hazard of accidents.

The palmy implementation of the Kavach strategy connected this captious conception of the Howrah-Chennai Main Line volition acceptable a benchmark for information and technology-driven obstruction operations, importantly reducing the likelihood of awesome passing astatine information (SPAD) and head-on collisions, creating a safer question acquisition for passengers, the connection said.