Last month, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi lifted a drone off the ground and manoeuvred it through a remote, hundreds of heads turned with it at the inauguration of the Bharat Drone Mahotsav in New Delhi. Some heads turned miles away from the national capital too, in the plush corporate offices of Mumbai and Bengaluru.
The nascent drone industry has been increasingly catching the attention of India Inc. especially after the government came out with a new policy last year.
While addressing the event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for making drones as ubiquitous as mobile phones. He said that it was his dream that everyone in India should have a smartphone in his or her hand, and every farm should have a drone.
