Drones are now being used by the Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration (LESA) to check power theft through air surveillance.
This is the first time that drones are being used to identify illegal power connections.
According to Sanjay Jain, chief engineer, LESA Cis-Gomti, more than 200 power thieves with photo evidence have been caught through the use of drones in the past one month.
The official added, “In some areas of the city where our staff faced some resistance due to narrow lanes, we decided to use drones to catch power thieves. During the last one month, we have caught more than 200 people at six places.
