Govt asks multiple ministries to promote use of drones
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has asked various ministries, including home affairs, health, defence, information and broadcasting to encourage and promote the use of drones.
- Feb 3, 2022,
- Updated Feb 3, 2022 4:22 PM IST
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has asked various ministries, including home affairs, health, defence, information and broadcasting to encourage and promote the use of drones. This comes after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about the facilitation of ‘Drone Shakti’ through varied applications and for Drone-As-A-Service (DrAAS). She also spoke of ‘Kisan Drones’ for crop assessment, digitisation of land records, spraying of insecticides, and nutrients, and called Geospatial Systems and Drones a sunrise sector.
The aviation ministry on Thursday said that drones offer tremendous benefits to sectors like agriculture, medicine delivery, mining, infrastructure, surveillance, emergency response, transportation, geo-spatial mapping, defence and law enforcement etc.
“As per Drone Rules, 2021, operation of drones in zones marked red and yellow on the drone airspace map zones requires permission from the Central Government and the Air Traffic Control (ATC) authority respectively. No permission is required to operate a drone in a green zone which is where most of the drone operations currently happen,” it said.
The following ministries were urged by the MoCA to promote the use of drones:
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has asked various ministries, including home affairs, health, defence, information and broadcasting to encourage and promote the use of drones. This comes after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about the facilitation of ‘Drone Shakti’ through varied applications and for Drone-As-A-Service (DrAAS). She also spoke of ‘Kisan Drones’ for crop assessment, digitisation of land records, spraying of insecticides, and nutrients, and called Geospatial Systems and Drones a sunrise sector.
The aviation ministry on Thursday said that drones offer tremendous benefits to sectors like agriculture, medicine delivery, mining, infrastructure, surveillance, emergency response, transportation, geo-spatial mapping, defence and law enforcement etc.
“As per Drone Rules, 2021, operation of drones in zones marked red and yellow on the drone airspace map zones requires permission from the Central Government and the Air Traffic Control (ATC) authority respectively. No permission is required to operate a drone in a green zone which is where most of the drone operations currently happen,” it said.
The following ministries were urged by the MoCA to promote the use of drones: