“As per data, 200 Elephants died in the last ten years in India, the majority of them coming from West Bengal and Assam,” a second official said. Over a dozen of these endangered animal gets killed on tracks, he added. It is an Artificial Intelligence powered optical fibre communication (OFC) based intrusion system,” an official said. It will help in detecting elephant movements near tracks, which will help the loco pilot control his speed at least 200 m before the animal. “The elephant death protection system- ‘Gajraj’, is 99.5% error-free and works on pressure waves. To protect and avoid the death of elephants on tracks, the Indian Railways have implemented a Made in India system – Gajraj, which has been implemented in the North Frontier Railways where 14 of the elephant corridors have been covered, Vaishnaw said. “By 2025-26, we aim to increase our yearly installation capacity (of KAVACH) to 5,000 km,” Vaishnaw said. The Union minister said that the Indian Railways aims to increase its KAVACH installation capacity from 1,500 to 2,500 every year. SIL 4 is the highest level of safety standards in which the possibility of an error is less than one in more than 10,000 years.

Officials close to the development said that the KAVACH system is in the process of getting the Safety Integrity Level 4 (SIL) certificate for the additional route targeted to be covered by March 2024. Vaishnaw’s statement comes after a few reports on stagnation in installing KAVACH in new routes went viral early this week.

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