{"id":119680,"date":"2021-07-19T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=119680"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T11:14:47","slug":"our-liberalized-draft-drone-rules-will-serve-us-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/our-liberalized-draft-drone-rules-will-serve-us-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Our liberalized policy on drones will serve us well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Livemint<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Advantages offered by drones and how a liberal drone rules regime can help India get ahead in this sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: Draft drone rules released recently are being hailed as progressive.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Why we needed a new set of rules?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The earlier drone rules were an over- kill that would have stifled drone usage and deprived the country of their myriad benefits. <strong>Too many permissions<\/strong> were needed to make, import and operate drones. Also, <strong>fines so steep<\/strong> were envisioned that they would have deterred startups from entering this field.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With its revisions, however, the ministry has eased the regulatory burden, enabling a services market to take off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #f7f2f2;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/draft-drone-rules-2021-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Draft Drone Rules 2021 &#8211; Explained<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>Benefits of drones<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Drones can serve a wide range of uses across sectors, from <strong>farming and mining<\/strong> to <strong>e-commerce and vaccine drop-offs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monitoring of hazardous sites<\/strong>: It is far safer to have a drone monitor a hazardous site, for example, than expose humans to it.<\/li>\n<li>For <strong>transporting vital supplies<\/strong> to places that are hard to access.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Utility for state initiatives<\/strong>: Their utility for state initiatives is also very high, like\n<ul>\n<li>cartographic exercises or for farm surveys and police surveillance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It would serve our economy best if drones are deployed mostly by private players as <strong>enhancers of efficiency<\/strong>, rather than by the state as its eyes, ears and arms.<\/p>\n<p>For that, our drone rules need to be as <strong>market-friendly<\/strong> as possible within the constraints of public security.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>The threat posed by drones<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lethal payloads<\/strong>: A drone has the ability to carry lethal payloads. The recent drone attack on an air-force installation in Jammu brought this problem into sharp focus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once drones are common in our skies, the prevention of rogue flights would need a foolproof vigil.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Way forward<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>While highly sensitive areas must stay off-limits to drones, we should not complicate matters for operators beyond what\u2019s necessary. Yet, we should be ready to adapt our drone rules in response to new learnings and advancements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terms to know:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW189150276 BCX0\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/draft-drone-rules-2021-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW189150276 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW189150276 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Draft drone rules 2021<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW189150276 BCX0\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unmanned-aerial-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW189150276 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW189150276 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Unmanned Aerial Vehicles<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"EOP SCXW189150276 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Livemint Relevance: Advantages offered by drones and how a liberal drone rules regime can help India get ahead in this sector. Synopsis: Draft drone rules released recently are being hailed as progressive. Why we needed a new set of rules? The earlier drone rules were an over- kill that would have stifled drone usage&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/our-liberalized-draft-drone-rules-will-serve-us-well\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our liberalized policy on drones will serve us well<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[7773,6575,216,8491,8371],"class_list":["post-119680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-draft-rules-for-drones","tag-drones","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-our-liberalized-policy-on-drones-will-serve-us-well","tag-security-issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704873492},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}