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The anti-collision test conducted by the Indian Railways to check the indigenous developed digital system &lsquo;Kavach&rsquo; to avoid rail accidents is &quot;successful&quot;, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, who oversaw the test, said on Friday.</p>
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Hon&#39;ble MR Shri <a href="https://twitter.com/AshwiniVaishnaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AshwiniVaishnaw</a> witnessed the successful trial of &#39;KAVACH&#39;- an indigenously designed Automatic Train Protection system.<br />
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Signal Passing at Danger (SPAD) test demonstrated how KAVACH restricted locomotive to cross red signal.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BharatKaKavach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BharatKaKavach</a> <a href="https://t.co/v2d9HQutGJ">pic.twitter.com/v2d9HQutGJ</a></p>
&mdash; Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) <a href="https://twitter.com/RailMinIndia/status/1499660011244441604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The minister said that in the rear-end collision test, &#39;Kavach&#39; automatically stopped the train before 380 metres of other locomotive at the front.</p>
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The minister also shared a video from inside a train that was part of anti-collision test conducted by the Indian Railways in Secunderabad.</p>
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The video shows the train travelling at high speed. The Kavach system intervenes automatically as there is a locomotive on the track ahead and brings the train to a halt.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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In the test being carried out the driver is supposed to be reducing the speed and then bringing it to a halt but since he does not do this despite the warning the Kavach system takes over automatically and stops the train to avoid a collision.</p>
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The indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection system, known as Kavach, has been designed to help the Railways achieve the target of &quot;zero accidents&quot;.</p>
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Kavach&#39;, which literally means armour, is being promoted by the Railways as the world&#39;s cheapest automatic train collision protection system.</p>
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The system will bring trains to a halt on its own when the digital system notices any manual error like &quot;jumping&quot; of the red signal or any other malfunction, senior officials said.</p>
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It works on the principle of continuous update of movement by using high frequency radio communication.</p>
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Announced in the 2022 union Budget as a part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, 2,000 km of rail network is planned to be brought under the indigenous world-class technology &#39;Kavach&#39;, for safety and capacity augmentation in 2022-23.</p>
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The first field trials on the passenger trains were started in February 2016.&nbsp;</p>
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