Home delivery with drones in India still a long way to go
Early last year, Bengaluru-based food delivery firm Swiggy called for bids in the drone-as-a-service (DaaS) market for its grocery service – Instamart. It selected Garuda Aerospace, Marut Dronetech and Skye Air Mobility for running pilots. However, only Garuda has been able to execute a pilot, while the others await permission to do so. Commercial operations, however, is still elusive.
The production linked incentive (PLI) offered to drone and drone component makers and the ban on drone imports in Budget 2022, preceded by the liberalised drone policy of 2021, the National Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) policy framework for managing drone traffic in airspace
