Hyderabad: Telangana on Thursday became the first state to test delivery of drugs using drones, with a test flight organised in the Vikarabad district. A formal launch of the service, to carry vaccines, is scheduled for September 11 when civil aviation minister Jyotiradtya Scindia will flag off the service along with state IT minister K.T. Rama Rao at Vikarabad.
Thursday’s trial flight, as part of the state government’s ‘Medicine from the Sky’ project, was launched by Vikarabad collector K. Nikhila. The first flight was for about for 500 metres, with a drone carrying a box weighing around 3 kg.
