
Kavach was developed by the Research Design and Standards Organization under the railway ministry, in collaboration with Medha Servo Drives Pvt Ltd, HBL Power Systems Ltd and Kernex Microsystems. The Indian Railways is pursuing the development of more suppliers for this technology. So far, Kavach has been deployed in 1,098-km and 65 locomotives in ongoing projects of the South Central Railway. It will also be implemented on the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah corridors as part of the 'Mission Raftar' project for increasing the speed of trains to 160-km per hour.