What happened: Kavach Version 4.0 approved for a specific rail stretch
Indian Railways approved the provision of Kavach Version 4.0 on 660 route kilometres of the Izzatnagar Division of North Eastern Railway (NER).
The estimated cost of the approved work is ₹295 crore.
Indian Railways approved the work under an umbrella project titled “Provision of Kavach with communication backbone of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) on balance sections of Indian Railways.”
Background: What Kavach is designed to do
Kavach is described as an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system (a train safety system that automatically enforces safety rules based on continuous monitoring).
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