{"id":420421,"date":"2021-06-15T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T04:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=420421"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T05:26:49","slug":"drones-for-vaccines-icmr-seeks-bids-telangana-explores-medicines-from-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/drones-for-vaccines-icmr-seeks-bids-telangana-explores-medicines-from-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones for vaccines: ICMR seeks bids, Telangana explores \u2018Medicines from Sky\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the focus moving to delivering vaccines in difficult to reach areas, the Centre and state governments are taking the drone route to get to such terrains. On one hand, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has sought bids from drone operators to supply medicines and vaccines; on the other, the Telangana government has launched a project to check delivery feasibility of medical supplies. Companies with logistics experience including Flipkart and Dunzo have announced their consortia under Telangana\u2019s drone delivery scheme to develop and execute drone deliveries there. <\/p>\n<p>As per ICMR\u2019s June 11 tender document, floated by HLL Infra Tech Services on its behalf, the aim is to develop a \u201cfeasible\u201d model for vaccine delivery to ensure last-mile coverage of \u201cdifficult\u201d terrains in \u201cselected\u201d locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the focus moving to delivering vaccines in difficult to reach areas, the Centre and state governments are taking the drone route to get to such terrains. On one hand, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has sought bids from drone operators to supply medicines and vaccines; on the other, the Telangana government has launched a project to check delivery feasibility of medical supplies. Companies with logistics experience including Flipkart and Dunzo have announced their consortia under Telangana\u2019s drone delivery scheme to develop and execute drone deliveries there. As per ICMR\u2019s June 11 tender document, floated by HLL Infra [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420421","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=420421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}