{"id":535915,"date":"2022-11-14T10:12:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T04:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=535915"},"modified":"2022-11-14T12:09:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T06:39:27","slug":"cant-fly-drone-without-passport-rule-dampens-gujarats-dream-to-be-drone-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cant-fly-drone-without-passport-rule-dampens-gujarats-dream-to-be-drone-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t fly drone without passport: Rule dampens Gujarat\u2019s dream to be drone hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the Gujarat government\u2019s push to promote the use of drones in several sectors including forestry, agriculture, geology, mining and disaster management, the state is facing a shortage of certified drone pilots.<\/p>\n<p>The reason \u2014 a mandate by the Director General of Civil Aviation requiring candidates enrolling for drone pilot training to have a passport.<\/p>\n<p>The state government announced its drone policy in August to encourage commercial use of drones and generate 25,000 jobs in the process, a vision backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who wants India to become the world\u2019s drone hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the Gujarat government\u2019s push to promote the use of drones in several sectors including forestry, agriculture, geology, mining and disaster management, the state is facing a shortage of certified drone pilots. The reason \u2014 a mandate by the Director General of Civil Aviation requiring candidates enrolling for drone pilot training to have a passport. The state government announced its drone policy in August to encourage commercial use of drones and generate 25,000 jobs in the process, a vision backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who wants India to become the world\u2019s drone hub.<\/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-535915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535915","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=535915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}