‘Samvaad with Scindia’: Civil Aviation Minister Interacts with Farmers on Benefits, Challenges of Kisan Drones
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 18th May. Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M Scindia on Tuesday interacted with various farmers across the country on the benefits and challenges of Kisan Drones.
The interaction took place under “Samvaad with Scindia”, an interactive programme in which the Minister of Civil Aviation interacted with the farmers and drone users directly.
During the interaction, Scindia shared the various government policies related to drones and how farmers can benefit from them.
Various farmers across the country stated their experiences and benefits on using drones as a tool for agriculture.
Farmers also asked various questions to the minister related to drones.
The discussion was moderated by Amber Dubey, Joint Secretary who heads the drone division at the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
On the question of high fee for drone pilot training, Scindia said, “The fees of a drone pilot course are currently quite high but you should not worry at all as when the number of drone schools keep increasing, the cost of training drone pilots will keep on decreasing and you will see revolution within the next 3-4 months as we keep increasing the number of such schools.”
He said, “The country definitely needs more drone pilots and it is for this reason that their certification process has been completely decentralised. So, now, the DGCA will only certify drone schools, and it is the drone school concerned which will grant certificates to pilots which will completely remove bureaucracy from this process.”
In the last six months, DGCA has certified 23 schools for training drone pilots, he further added.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation had earlier this month invited a second round of applications for the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme that was announced last year to boost drone manufacturing in India. The deadline for submitting the application form is 2359 hours on 20th May 2022.
The final list of PLI beneficiaries is expected to be released by 30th June 2022 after detailed scrutiny of their financial results and other specified documents.
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