Railways to install 'Train Collision Avoidance System' on prominent routes by 2024
Kawach is an anti-collision device network & its made-in-India technology is designed to help Indian Railways achieve the goal of zero accidents.
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New Delhi, February 3: To give a boost to ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that 2,000 km of the rail network will be brought under the indigenous world-class technology named ‘Kawach’. Kawach in Hindi, means armour.
After an on-going initial test in the South- Central Railway as on a pilot basis, near Hyderabad, Kawach would get a wider installation on 2000 routes km of railway networks by 2024.
The system installed in a train-loco starts working automatically as soon as it detects something wrong in movement of the train by sending alerts to all concerned authorities, including the train's driver, the next railway station over a radio frequency.
Sitharaman said while presenting the Budget in the Parliament, "As a part of Atmanirbhar Bharat, 2,000 km of rail network will be brought under the indigenous world-class technology ‘Kawach’, for safety and capacity augmentation in 2022-23."
Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw lauded the announcement about 2,000 km of the network to be brought under Kawach. Vaishnaw said, "Indigenously developed anti-collision technology called Kawach, (TCAS) is SIL-4(Safety Integrity Level) certified. That means there is the probability of a single error in 10,000 years in its efficient working results."
After an on-going initial test in the South- Central Railway as on a pilot basis, near Hyderabad, Kawach would get a wider installation on 2000 routes km of railway networks by 2024.
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‘Kawach’ is an anti-collision device (ACD) network. It is a Made-in-India technology that is designed to help Indian Railways achieve the goal of “zero accidents". A senior railway official said that the Kawach system brings the train's movement to a halt automatically, after detecting that the train had jumped of the Red signal or spots another train on the same railway track from opposite side.
The system installed in a train-loco starts working automatically as soon as it detects something wrong in movement of the train by sending alerts to all concerned authorities, including the train's driver, the next railway station over a radio frequency.
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Trains will also stop on their own when the digital system notices any manual error. It is on test-installation linked with speed-meters, the brake-units and in-cab display of signal points, the SOS buttons and safety units of concerned trains. It is currently being put on test as a pilot project on about 600 routes of rail networks near Hyderabad.