{"id":413259,"date":"2021-05-03T11:47:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413259"},"modified":"2021-05-03T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T07:17:54","slug":"telangana-gets-nod-for-experimental-delivery-of-covid-jabs-using-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/telangana-gets-nod-for-experimental-delivery-of-covid-jabs-using-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Telangana gets nod for experimental delivery of Covid jabs using drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telangana government has been permitted to conduct experimental delivery of Covid-19 vaccines using drones over short distances. <\/p>\n<p>The permission was granted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and ministry of civil aviation. The ministry said in a notification dated April 29 that it had granted the state a conditional exemption from the UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) Rules, 2021 for conducting \u201cexperimental delivery of vaccines using drones within visual line of sight (VLOS) range.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The conditional exemption will be valid for one year or until further orders, it said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the notification, the state government had written to the ministry seeking the necessary exemption on March 9. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telangana government has been permitted to conduct experimental delivery of Covid-19 vaccines using drones over short distances. The permission was granted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and ministry of civil aviation. The ministry said in a notification dated April 29 that it had granted the state a conditional exemption from the UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) Rules, 2021 for conducting \u201cexperimental delivery of vaccines using drones within visual line of sight (VLOS) range.\u201d The conditional exemption will be valid for one year or until further orders, it said. According to the notification, the state government had written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}