Giving wings to a drone-enabled future

The Government of India envisions making India a global drone hub by 2030. To realise this dream, the Drone Rules 2021 were released in August along with the PLI scheme for the drone sector on September 15. These regulations have opened a whole new world of possibilities for drone business in India which has the potential to transform almost all sectors of the economy. This will enable as fundamental a shift in people’s lives as aircraft brought in the mid-twentieth century or the internet brought in the last couple of decades.

The regulations themselves have significantly increased the ease of doing business in the drone sector which is evident from the fact that the number of approvals and permissions have been reduced from 25 to 6.