Indian Railways to RFID Tag all wagons by 2022 December

Indian Railways is planning to radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) Tag all wagons by the end of 2022. Indian Railways is expected to complete this process of fitting RFID in all the wagons by December 2022.
The RFID tags will be used to track all wagons.
Around 23,000 wagons have been covered under the RFID project.
The Project is still in progress amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Currently, the Indian Railway is maintaining such data manually that leaves scope for errors.
The RFID devices will be easier for the railways to know the exact position of all the wagons, locomotives, and coaches.
The RFID tag will be fitted in the rolling stock and the trackside readers will be installed at stations and key points along the tracks to read the tag from a distance of about two meters and transmit the wagon identity over a network to a central computer.
The moving wagon can be identified and its movement will be tracked.
The issue of shortage of wagons, coaches, and locomotives is expected to be addressed in a more transparent and expeditious manner by fixing the RFID Tag.