Indian Railways has planned to allocate a sum of Rs 1.08 trillion for railway safety initiatives. This is about 41 per cent of Rs 2.62 trillion allocated in the Union Budget 2024-25 for the railways sector. With this, the major focus will be on KAVACH installation, enhancement of the signalling system, track renewal, development of flyovers and underpasses, and building coaches with safety features among others. Reportedly, the long-term evolution based KAVACH 4.0 has also received approval from the Research Designs and Standards Organisation.
Besides, under the PM Gati Shakti Mission, a total of three economic railway corridors- energy, mineral and cement corridors with 192 projects, port connectivity corridors with 42 projects, and high traffic density corridors with 200 projects- have been identified for the purpose of multi-modal connectivity.