CHENNAI: The Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has approved the country’s first petrol-operated drones designed and manufactured by the students’ start-up unit ‘Daksha Unmanned Systems Private Limited’.
Daksha is developed by the MIT aerospace department initiated by the aerospace research students.
Soon after the DGCA issued the ‘type certificate’ to Daksha’s prototype DH-Agrigator, an agriculture sprayer drone, the Daksha got about 50 pre-orders. MIT aerospace department associate professor K Senthil Kumar said, “The type certificate means the prototype can be manufactured and sold in the market.”
