IIT Guwahati on Tuesday sought to be a hub for research and use of drones for delivery of medicines and other emergency items in the remote parts of the country’s northeast by opening four centres of drone technology.
This included a droneport, Centre for Excellence in Research on Drone/UAV Technology, which is said to be the country’s first such centre, a skill development centre for the northeast and a Nodal Center for administrative Drone Data Management for the Northeast.
Union minister of state for civil aviation Gen (retd) VK Singh inaugurated the centres, set up jointly by the IIT Guwahati and FICCI.
