HYDERABAD: In a major boost to the State’s plan to deliver medicines through drones, one of the shortlisted startups for the project recently received a green light from the Ministry of Civil Aviation for conducting Beyond the Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flights.
In a letter written by a senior official of Ministry of Civil Aviation, Hyderabad-based Marut Drones, one of the startups the State government is in talks to conduct medicine deliveries and surveil forests through drones, were given approvals for conducting BVLOS trial flights. This permission gives the right to the startup to operate drones remotely and let it function beyond the limits of the horizon.
