{"id":469038,"date":"2022-02-18T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T03:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=469038"},"modified":"2022-02-18T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T04:38:36","slug":"drone-shakti-budget-was-promising-but-the-sector-needs-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/drone-shakti-budget-was-promising-but-the-sector-needs-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Shakti: Budget was promising but the sector needs much more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s increased focus on the drone sector became clear when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talked about Drone Shakti, a mission similar to those aimed at conserving water and building infrastructure in the Union Budget this year. It marked another step by the government to make India a drone hub by 2030. <\/p>\n<p>Drone Shakti will be a new integrated office in the Ministry of Civil Aviation to facilitate faster growth, coordination and approvals for drones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Startups will be promoted to facilitate &#8216;Drone Shakti&#8217; through varied applications and for Drone-as-a-Service (DrAAS),&#8221; Sitharaman said in her speech. She said that the courses required for drone skills will be started in select Industrial Training Institutes in various states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s increased focus on the drone sector became clear when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talked about Drone Shakti, a mission similar to those aimed at conserving water and building infrastructure in the Union Budget this year. It marked another step by the government to make India a drone hub by 2030. Drone Shakti will be a new integrated office in the Ministry of Civil Aviation to facilitate faster growth, coordination and approvals for drones. &#8220;Startups will be promoted to facilitate &#8216;Drone Shakti&#8217; through varied applications and for Drone-as-a-Service (DrAAS),&#8221; Sitharaman said in her speech. She said that the courses [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469038","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=469038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}