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Drone highways are almost here Drone highways are almost here ByHemanth CSHemanth CS / Updated: Feb 3, 2021, 14:14 IST IISc in Challakere, 230 km from Bengaluru Drone highways in the sky are not a futuristic fantasy anymore. They’re being readied at the second campus of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Challakere, Chitradurga district, 230 km from Bengaluru. The highways will be exclusive corridors for testing and flying both military and commercial drones. Around 1373 acres of land for this corridor has been earmarked and it will have drone ports too. “A massive drone corridor...

February 3, 2021 You are reading it here first: Twenty six more green zones have been approved for compliant drones to fly in India, bringing the total to thirty-two green zones, as per an order by the Civil Aviation Ministry. Green zones are essentially uncontrolled airspaces where an Air Traffic Control (ATC) service is not necessary. Drones compliant with the “no permission, no takeoff” (NPNT) protocol will be able to fly in these airspaces. In April, the Ministry had approved six such airspaces. The latest airspaces to get approval are in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gu...

5.2.1. According to the draft UTM Policy, the DigitalSky Platform will also act as a pan-India UTMSP, apart from being a central data archive and a central regulatory platform. DigitalSky's UTMSP will be hosted on the DigitalSky Platform and offer services similar to other UTMSPs. The DigitalSky UTMSP will be available to government and non-government stakeholders for the same services being offered by private UTMSPs. We recommend that the draft UTM Policy provide clarity on whether the DigitalSky UTMSP will be operating based on the data provided by UTMSPs, whether there will be a data shari...

Exclusive: Drones used by police over protesting farmers were not authorised to fly January 8, 2021 You’re reading it here first: The drones the police flew over farmers protesting against the recently enacted farm laws were illegal — their use was never authorised by the Civil Aviation Ministry, or the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), both entities which regulate drone use in the country, RTIs filed by MediaNama revealed. It’s a worrying example of the amount of discretion available to on-ground police personnel — especially when it’s about using tech to carry out mass...