{"id":599595,"date":"2023-08-25T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T04:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=599595"},"modified":"2023-08-25T12:29:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T06:59:57","slug":"over-120-farmers-seek-permission-to-fly-drones-under-mps-training-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/over-120-farmers-seek-permission-to-fly-drones-under-mps-training-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 120 farmers seek permission to fly drones under MP&#8217;s training plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 120 farmers in Madhya Pradesh have sought permission to fly drones under the state government\u2019s arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>The government is helping farmers to not only get a drone pilot\u2019s licence but also providing them subsidies for purchasing the drone and getting training. <\/p>\n<p>The state has signed a pact with Amethi-based Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udan Academy, an autonomous entity under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, to train farmers. According to government officials, the subsidised cost to train a farmer is Rs 30,000. The cost will be equally divided between the farmers and the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 120 farmers in Madhya Pradesh have sought permission to fly drones under the state government\u2019s arrangement. The government is helping farmers to not only get a drone pilot\u2019s licence but also providing them subsidies for purchasing the drone and getting training. The state has signed a pact with Amethi-based Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udan Academy, an autonomous entity under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, to train farmers. According to government officials, the subsidised cost to train a farmer is Rs 30,000. The cost will be equally divided between the farmers and the government.<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599595","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=599595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}