Bengaluru: India will onboard multiple public and private service providers for managing drone traffic in airspaces below 1,000 feet, as it moves forward with its plans to boost wider adoption of unmanned aircraft across sectors such as healthcare, logistics and agriculture in the next few years.
The recently released National Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) Policy Framework lays down guidelines for fully automated tracking of drones in Indian airspace, alongside the integrations between traffic management entities, the government, air traffic controllers and law enforcement agencies, among others.
“The number of unmanned aircraft operating in the Indian airspace is expected to increase multifold.
