CHENNAI: As part of the Kavach deployment on 548 km planned in the Southern Railway zone, the automatic train protection system will be deployed on the Chennai Beach-Tambaram-Chengalpattu section.
Indian Railways has approved the deployment of its automatic train protection system, Kavach, across 548 route kilometres in Southern Railway at Rs 310.18 crore.
The Kavach version 4.0 will be implemented on two sections of the Southern Railway. The Jolarpettai–Erode stretch (180 route km) under Salem division and the Chennai Beach–Tambaram–Chengalpattu section (60 km) under Chennai division will be covered, along with new optical fibre cabling for Rs 158.74 crore.
In addition, the Shoranur–Mangalore section (308 km) under Palakkad Division will be equipped with Kavach, including the installation of optical fibre cable (OFC) infrastructure at Rs 151.44 crore. The works form part of Southern Railway's larger sub-umbrella project on safety upgrades, with a total outlay of Rs 2,950 crore.