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What is the status of Kavach installations? | Explained

The story so far: The deadly collision between two passenger trains in southern India’s Vizianagaram district in Andhra Pradesh which killed 14 people and injured fifty persons could have been averted if Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) were in place. East Coast Railway officials indicated that the indigenously developed TCAS called ‘Kavach,’ was not installed on the route where the Visakhapatnam-Palasa and Visakhapatnam-Rayagada trains collided.

EDITORIAL | Safety first: On the lessons from the train accident in Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh 

What is TCAS - Kavach?

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