Indian Railways

“Railways said a new 'Tank to Tap' water filtration system will be implemented at 20,000 locations.”

“Kavach was adopted as National Automatic Train Protection System in July, 2020.”

“Kavach 4.0 has been successfully commissioned on 2,633 route kilometres.”

“Indian Railways is prioritising Kavach deployment on high-density and highly used network routes, which carry nearly 96% of railway traffic.”

“Indian Railways has estimated that the rollout cost for Kavach is around Rs 50 lakh per kilometre”

“while that for ETCS is around Rs 1.5-2 crore per kilometre.”

“Comparable global systems like the ETCS-2 or European Train Control System cost around four times more.”

“Kavach 4.0 now commissioned on the Delhi–Mumbai and Delhi–Howrah corridors.”

“India’s Kavach has been certified to Safety Integrity Level 4 (SIL-4).”

“between the hours of 2200 and 0500”

“until 0500 on 3 June”