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Har haath mein
smart phone.
Har khet
drone.
Har ghar samradhi
.” (A smart phone for all, a drone for each field and prosperity for each household). Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday —a day after completing eight years in office — described this as his dream for India as the country celebrates 75 years of independence, while inaugurating India’s biggest drone expo at Delhi’s Pragati Maidan. The PM spent about an hour at the various stalls displaying what all all drones can do in all spheres — from agriculture, land mapping, delivering life-saving medicines and in both policing to defence of the country.
“I have asked all ministries to send their officers here to see how best the drone technology can be used to improve the quality of lives of common citizens and further improve the ease of doing business. (Unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs) will usher in a new governance in new India,” Modi said.
The government has major plans to use drones in all fields, with especial focus on agriculture and land mapping. “So far 65 lakh property cards have been issued in rural India after surveying land using UAVs under our ‘
swamitva’
(ownership) scheme. I met farmers at the drone fest who told me this technology will help them go in for more cultivation of ‘long crops’ that were so far avoided as walking amid them for spraying pesticides was very difficult. Now drones will do that job. This will lead to an increase in cultivation of pulses,” Modi said.
Drones will be used for spraying pesticides while minimising the use of the same scientifically. “Drones will take farming to the next level. They will help tackle the issues of low yield and crop spoilage,” he said.
The PM described how he uses drone technology to monitor development projects. “Every month I hold a virtual meeting to monitor these projects. For instance during meetings regarding the Kedarnath redevelopment work, the progress would be shown using UAVs. Going to a site for monitoring means everyone gets alert (there is no surprise element). But using drones we monitor ongoing work without anyone realising that we are keeping watch,” he said.
Modi virtually handed over 150 remote pilot licences during Friday’s inaugural event. Union aviation minister J M Scindia said drones are an idea whose time has come and now nothing can stop this technology from growing. “At the moment we have 270 startups in the field of drones in India. UAVs will very soon be a Rs 15,000-crore sector in the country. India will be the world leader in drone technology, the Dronacharya,” Scindia said.
The Union aviation ministry is organising India’s biggest ever drone event here on Friday and Saturday. Amber Dubey, aviation ministry joint secretary and a member of the “Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022” organising committee, had recently told TOI: “This is one of the largest drone conferences in the world with over 1,600 delegates from government, embassies, industry, young startups and academia expected in the inaugural session… highlight of the inaugural session is the flying of a rural property mapping drone by the PM, perhaps the first head of state to fly a professional drone in a public event.”
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