The surge in the instances of derailment of trains has also prompted Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to speak about the recent incidents

The Railway Ministry has been working on this project for the last eight years to bring the rail network under the Kavach system in a phased manner.

Sawai Madhopur: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will travel in a Kavach-fitted train on Tuesday afternoon for a trial to check the efficiency of the automatic train protection system at Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan.

Key focus will be to evaluate whether the system can autonomously bring the train to a halt at red signals without any intervention from the locomotive pilot.

The Kavach system, also known as an Automatic Train Protection System (ATP), has been developed by the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO). It can apply brakes automatically in an emergency when a train driver fails to act in time.

Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will travel in a Kavach-fitted train on Tuesday for a trial to check the efficiency of the automatic protection system at Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. The railway officials said Minister Vaishnaw will board the Kavach-fitted engine of a train at the Sawai Madhopur railway station and travel for 45 minutes up to Indargarh Railway station.