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The agriculture ministry has been permitted to use drones for remote sensing data collection under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Directorate General of Civil Aviation have granted conditional exemption for Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) usage to Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoAFW), an official statement said on Friday. This will allow MoAFW to use drones for remote sensing data collection in agricultural areas of 100 districts of the country for gram panchayat level yield estimation, under PMFBY. The conditional exemption will be valid for one year from the date of issue of the permission letter or until the operationalisation of the Digital Sky Platform, whichever is earlier, the statement by the civil aviation ministry said.
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IAF proposes closure of Jammu airport for civilian traffic next month
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has proposed closure of the Jammu airport for civilian traffic for 15 days next month for runway resurfacing work, drawing a strong resentment from the Jammu and Kashmir administration which has sought the Defence Ministry s intervention into the matter, officials said on Wednesday.
Nearly two dozen flights operate to and from the Jammu airport, and in view of the development, all the companies operating their flights in the sector have stopped booking for the period.
Quoting a communication addressed to the Jammu airport director, the officials said Air Force Station, Jammu wants complete closure of the runway for 15 days towards laying of final two top DAC-II layers on the runway surface from March 6 to 20, which has been approved by Air Headquarters.
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The government’s decision to move from pseudo-privatisation to an actual sell-off, amounting to relinquishing of control, has triggered celebrations on the stock market. Shares of the four banks, assumed to be privatised immediately, hit upper circuits. Privatising chronically sick, money-guzzling public sector undertakings (PSUs) is, indeed, a good thing, especially in sectors where the government has no business being in business. A broad policy framework, classifying PSUs into strategic and non-strategic, preceded the decision to sell or close 151 non-strategic ones. But there is no clear roadmap of how this will be done and most information in the public domain is from ‘source’-based news reports.