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You’re reading it here first: The Central government wants to deploy drones unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deliver COVID19 vaccines to underserved regions in the country. A group of government institutions, on being nudged by the country’s Principal Scientific Advisor’s (PSA) office, has come up with a proposal for a pilot project wherein drones will be used to make deliveries to public health centres and camps on the outskirts of Bengaluru.
The pilot project’s success could see its expansion to hilly and forested regions in Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Assam, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Laboratories operated by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) across the country will be used launch pads for the drones, notes the proposal document available on the PSA’s website. The organisations responsible for the pilot are CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CISO), CSIR- Natio