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 

 

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