Using Kavach, a cutting-edge protection technology, alongside block signaling and centralized traffic control systems on major lines will be expedited by New Delhi Indian Railways, a railway official said.
This comes after the terrible train accident on Friday that involved the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express, and a goods train that left over 238 persons dead and 650 more injured in the Balasore region of Odisha.
A spokesperson for the railway asserted that after the rescue operation was finished, the repair work had started.
Indian Railways representative Amitabh Sharma said there was no Kavach system on this line when asked about the train disaster.
An official claims that the tragic incident, one of the nation’s deadliest train accidents, has once again brought attention to train safety features like Kavach.
The Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) collaborated with the Indian industry to develop Kavach which is a cutting-edge electronic safety system. When a driver exceeds the posted speed limit, the train’s brakes automatically apply to prevent collisions.
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The initial tactic focused on placing these safety measures in areas that saw high traffic. Indian Railways, in response to the sad disaster, has hastened these measures in order to ensure safer operations on high-density routes.
First, with autonomous block signaling and centralized traffic control, train speeds on high-density lines like the New Delhi-Mumbai and New Delhi-Howrah sectors would be raised to 160 km/h.
The second priority would be the Kavach system, which uses automated block signaling and centralized traffic control for trains operating on very congested networks. Kavach will be used on more high-density passenger routes with automated block signaling in the third phase.
The priority order will now be expedited, according to officials, in order to find out if this anti-collision technology, which functions best for heavy-density lines where trains run at regular intervals and the space between two trains is frequently considerably tighter than other routes.
Block signals will quickly stop the train if the railway driver misses a signal. Centralized control would add an additional level of manual or physical railway operational inspection, supplemented by system checks.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is anticipated to visit the Odisha railway accident site in the interim.
According to news source Ashwini Vaishnaw, railways minister quoted by ANI, “A detailed high-level inquiry will be conducted, and the rail safety commissioner will also do an independent inquiry.”
