Kavach system installation on Mumbai-Delhi-Kolkata route delayed
INFRASTRUCTURE
28 DECEMBER 2025
- Having missed the second deadline of December 2025, the Railways is now hopeful of operationalising the automatic train protection system, Kavach, on routes connecting the national capital with Mumbai and Howrah sometime in 2026, with steady progress and an aggressive approach, officials said.
- Kavach is an indigenously developed, highly technology-intensive system that helps maintain specified speed limits by automatically applying brakes if the loco pilot fails to do so.
- The Railways Ministry on August 7, 2024, said that work to install Kavach would be completed on the said routes by March 2025. It announced the extension of the deadline from March to December 2025 on February 1, 2025, in a budget document titled “Railways estimates for Revised Estimates 2024-25 and Budget Estimates 2025-26”.
