Kavach compared with a bank safe deposit box
If you hold a bank safe deposit box, or you are looking for one, the useful comparison is not about whether the box is secure. Both are. It is about where it sits, when you can reach it, who handles it, and whether the service will still be there in five years.
Location
Bank safe-custody facilities are concentrated in city centres. Kavach is built the other way round: vaults in the suburbs where people live, with parking, chosen for road access rather than foot traffic.
Access hours
A bank box is generally available during branch hours on weekdays. Planned Kavach access hours are Mon–Fri 10am–7pm, Sat–Sun 9am–4pm, automated within those hours, so a visit does not need to come out of a working day.
How you reach the box
At a bank, a staff member escorts you into the vault and a dual-key process opens the box. At Kavach the retrieval is automated: you identify yourself at the entrance, the system brings your box to an enclosed access booth, and you handle the contents alone. Staff are on site to help you, never to handle what is yours.
Records
Kavach logs every access event and the record is tamper-evident, so you can see when your box was opened and by whom across the life of the rental.
Continuity
For a bank, safe custody is a peripheral service that competes with more profitable uses of the same floor space. For Kavach it is the entire business. That difference is the reason boxes disappeared from suburban branches, and the reason they are unlikely to come back.