Aviation Ministry grants permission to use drones to 10 organisations
The Civil Aviation Ministry on Monday gave conditional permission to 10 organisations, including Mahindra and Mahindra NSE -1.14 %, Steel Authority of India NSE -0.22 % (SAIL) and Bayer Crop Science, to use drones for various purposes. In a statement, the ministry said the Karnataka government is one of the 10 organisations and it has got the permission to conduct “drone based aerial survey for creating urban property ownership records in Bengaluru”.
Mahindra and Mahindra has got permission to conduct “drone-based agricultural trials” and use drones for precision spraying on paddy and hot pepper crop in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, it mentioned.
