{"id":434601,"date":"2021-09-07T10:45:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=434601"},"modified":"2021-09-07T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:44:10","slug":"will-open-drone-pilots-training-schools-across-india-with-igrua-drone-destinations-chirag-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-open-drone-pilots-training-schools-across-india-with-igrua-drone-destinations-chirag-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Will open drone pilots training schools across India with IGRUA: Drone Destination&#8217;s Chirag Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: After training over 1,500 commercial aircraft pilots since 1986, the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA) has now entered the field of training drone pilots also. It has tied up with a leading private sector player, Drone Destination, for setting up remote aircraft system pilot training schools across India. The two together started their first training centre in Gurgaon&#8217;s Manesar earlier this year and the second one was inaugurated by aviation secretary P S Kharola in Bengaluru on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>IGRUA director Krishnendu Gupta told TOI the academy is now diversifying beyond training commercial aircraft pilots to other areas in a bid to generate funds and become self-sufficient. &#8220;We issued an expression of interest to tie up for drone pilot training institutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: After training over 1,500 commercial aircraft pilots since 1986, the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA) has now entered the field of training drone pilots also. It has tied up with a leading private sector player, Drone Destination, for setting up remote aircraft system pilot training schools across India. The two together started their first training centre in Gurgaon&#8217;s Manesar earlier this year and the second one was inaugurated by aviation secretary P S Kharola in Bengaluru on Sunday. IGRUA director Krishnendu Gupta told TOI the academy is now diversifying beyond training commercial aircraft pilots to other areas [&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-434601","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\/434601","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=434601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}