"India to become drone hub by 2030." India's civil aviation ministry is gung-ho about India's drone future. Here are the many ways they might touch your life, Jyotiraditya Scindia tells Brut.
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00:00The Ministry of Power where all checking of transmission lines are done manually today
00:05and in the days to come drones will be used for that.
00:09Drones is a revolution whose time has come in India.
00:18There are 12 line ministries that have been charged with the imperative to use drones
00:25for all applications such as the Ministry of Agriculture in the spraying of pesticides,
00:31spraying of seeds, such as the Ministry of Mining in terms of using drones to ensure that
00:38the mine excavation processes are done through drones, such as the Ministry of Health where
00:45you're seeing projects like medicines from the sky where vaccines are being transported to far-flung
00:51areas in the northeast and even in states like Telangana to villages by drones and then there
00:56is a doctor and a nurse waiting at the drone helipad where the drone lands, the vaccines,
01:03refrigerated vaccines are removed and patients are inoculized right then and there on the helipad.
01:10So these are very innovative changes, the Ministry of Power where all checking of
01:15transmission lines are done manually today and in the days to come drones will be used
01:20for that. The Ministry of Rural Development with the ambitious Swamittu scheme
01:25where in rural India you're going to see mapping of cadastral surveys being done by drones and
01:31land ownership certificates being given to people in rural India which is a revolution in itself.