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POWERGRID will use drones to monitor critical projects
NEW DELHI .Heralding a new technological jump in the power transmission sector, the companies especially state owned Power Grid would now use drones for monitoring project development in critical areas. Senior officials in power ministry said Power Grid got approval for the same from the committee comprising Ministry of Defence, home affairs, power and allied departments.
Drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle with photo capturing and video recording which is used by defence across world for both monitoring and combat. Apart from being used extensively in movie shoots and video recording, it caught fancy of other sectors when a restaurant used it for pizza delivery. So much for meeting targets that an e-commerce giant has requested Indian government to use them to delivering products. Drones are now even used in grand Indian weddings to aerially record
the function, by private metrological agencies, forest and agricultural research bodies. Business Standard
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