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KAVACH — buyers, tenders and who holds what

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Indian Railways' automatic train protection programme (KAVACH 4.0 rollout); tags bodies that buy or specify it.

Buyers

Buyer	Type	Region
South Coast Railway	IR zone	Andhra Pradesh
East Coast Railway	IR zone	Odisha
Northeast Frontier Railway	IR zone	Assam
Railway Board / Ministry of Railways HQ	National rail HQ	Delhi-NCR
Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation Limited	Regional rail SPV	Maharashtra
South Western Railway	IR zone	Karnataka
East Central Railway	IR zone	Bihar
North Western Railway	IR zone	Rajasthan
West Central Railway	IR zone	Madhya Pradesh
Western Railway (Gujarat divisions)	IR zone	Gujarat
Northern Railway — Delhi Division	IR zone	Delhi-NCR
South Central Railway (HQ Secunderabad)	IR zone	Telangana
South Eastern Railway	IR zone	West Bengal
Southern Railway — Chennai Division	IR zone	Tamil Nadu
Southern Railway — Thiruvananthapuram & Palakkad divisions	IR zone	Kerala
Central Railway — Mumbai Division	IR zone	Maharashtra
Chennai MRTS / Suburban (SR-operated, merging into CMRL)	Regional rail SPV	Tamil Nadu
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works	Rolling-stock OEM	West Bengal
Eastern Railway	IR zone	West Bengal
Maharashtra Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation	State SPV	Maharashtra
Northern Railway — Ambala & Delhi Divisions (Haryana footprint)	IR zone	Delhi-NCR, Haryana
Western Railway — Mumbai Central Division	IR zone	Maharashtra

Tender	Buyer	Status	Value band	Next key date
Ajmer–Chanderiya doubling civil track electrical	NWR	Awarded	₹250–300 cr	Awarded March 2025
KAVACH ATP Bengaluru Mysuru divisions	SWR	Awarded	$29.1–34.9M (₹250–300 cr)	Awarded May 2025
KAVACH trackside deployment Jabalpur division	WCR	Awarded	₹450–500 cr	Awarded February 2026
Signalling 5th/6th lines Borivali–Virar MUTP-3A	MRVC	Awarded	$23.3–29.1M (₹200–250 cr)	Awarded February 2026

The next key date of each tender in this programme, by month.

Month	Milestone	Tender	Buyer	Status
April 2026	Sanctioned	OFC LTE backbone Ahmedabad Ratlam	WR (Gujarat)	Planned
May 2026	Sanctioned	Guntakal–Wadi 3rd 4th railway lines	SCoR	Planned
June 2026	Sanctioned	KAVACH 4.0 48 block sections	WR (Gujarat)	Planned
June 2026	Sanctioned	KAVACH ATP 631 RKm ECoR six sections	ECoR	Planned
July 2026	Sanctioned	Doubling Paradip–Haridaspur line Paradip port feeder	ECoR	Planned
August 2026	Sanctioned	Bhadrak–Haridaspur 4th line	ECoR	Planned
August 2026	Sanctioned	Cuttack–Paradeep Badabandha 3rd 4th lines	ECoR	Planned
August 2026	Sanctioned	Gummidipundi–Gudur 3rd 4th lines 90 km	SCoR	Planned
August 2026	Sanctioned	Kharagpur–Bhadrak Ranital 4th line West Bengal Odisha	ECoR	Planned

Month	Milestone	Tender	Buyer	Status
January 2028	Completion	Lumding–Furkating doubling 140 km	NFR	In execution

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