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Rajya Sabha: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that work on ‘Kavach’ is going on at a fast pace to prevent railway accidents and for the safety of passengers. This work should have been done 40 years ago.
Rajya Sabha: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that work on ‘Kavach’ is going on at a fast pace to prevent railway accidents and for the safety of passengers. This work should have been done 40 years ago. But the previous governments did not do any work. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav told the Rajya Sabha on Friday that work on the automatic train protection system should have been done in the 1980s or 1990s, but is now being done at a fast pace and is giving good results. Answering supplementary questions during the Question Hour, the Railway Minister said that the work which the whole world has established long ago, India is doing now because the previous governments had not done it earlier. It is a very complex system. It has to be designed for each section of the train.
Development work started as soon as Modi arrived
The Railway Minister said that our team is working day and night to ensure that this thing, which should have been established in the 1990s or 1980s, is happening since 2014. The minister told the Upper House that the work which the rest of the world had done long ago, has now been taken up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after assuming the responsibility of the country. Since then the development work has started. He told that it is called Automatic Train Protection System. He said that this work is going on at a very fast pace. Work is going on across the country and Odisha is also part of this project. We are getting very good results from this. Vaishnav said that ‘Kavach’ is a “very complex system which has five major sub-systems.
Passenger safety top priority
Explaining the system, he said it involves installing a full optical fiber cable along the railway track, installing telecommunication towers along the railway track at a certain distance determined by the availability of radio signals and setting up a third Kavach data centre, which is an edge data center at every intermediate station. Railway Minister Vaishnav said the fourth sub-system is the track armor system, which is installed every few hundred meters along the track and the last thing is the armor device installed on the locomotive or train. He said that the safety of railway passengers is the top priority of the government. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that the government’s entire focus is on timely operation of trains.
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