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HBL Engineering gained over 2% after bagging contracts worth over ₹163 crore from South Central Railway to implement and upgrade the Kavach train safety system.
Kavach is India’s indigenously developed automatic train protection system, designed to prevent collisions, enforce speed limits, and alert loco pilots in case of signal errors.
The deets: the main contract valued at ₹133 crore involves installing Kavach across the Vijayawada–Ballarshah section. The rollout covers a 446-km stretch, 48 stations, and 10 locomotives, with an expected timeline of 18 months.
Separately, HBL received a ₹30.6 crore order to upgrade Kavach from Version 3.2 to Version 4.0 across the Mudkhed–Manmad section (350 km), to be completed in 24 months.
Background: just last month, HBL became the first company approved to implement Version 4.0 of the Kavach system, India’s latest and most advanced version of its train collision avoidance technology.
