“With the success of this pilot project, it will now be possible to make postal deliveries by drone in future”
“With the success of this pilot project, it will now be possible to make postal deliveries by drone in future”
The Department of Posts has for the primary time delivered mail utilizing a drone as a part of a pilot venture in Gujarat’s Kutch district, protecting a distance of 46 km in 25 minutes, officers stated on Sunday.
The mail was despatched by the drone from Habay village in Bhuj taluka to Ner village in Bhachau taluka of Kutch district by the postal division below the steerage of the Union Ministry of Communications, a launch issued by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) in Ahmedabad stated.
“With the success of this pilot project, it will now be possible to make postal deliveries by drone in future,” it stated.
“Keeping pace with modern technology, the Indian Postal Department has successfully tested for the first time in the country’s postal history a pilot project to deliver mail with the help of drone technology in Kutch district of Gujarat,” the PIB stated.
As per the discharge, it took 25 minutes for the parcel to succeed in the vacation spot positioned 46 km from the originating level.
It was a medical parcel, as per the knowledge shared on Twitter by Union Minister of State for Communications Devusinh Chauhan.
The pilot venture particularly studied the price of supply by drones and the geographical location between the 2 centres, in addition to attainable coordination amongst workers throughout the supply course of, together with attainable roadblocks, the discharge stated.
If the experiment is commercially profitable, the postal parcel supply companies will likely be sooner, it added.
Mr. Chauhan in a tweet on Saturday stated, “As the country celebrated the #DroneMahotsav2022, the Department of Posts successfully conducted a pilot test for delivery of parcels through drones in Kutch, Gujarat. The Drone successfully delivered the medicine parcel covering an aerial distance of 46 Km in 30 mins.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the “Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022”, the nation’s greatest drone pageant, the place he stated the usage of drones will rise in sectors reminiscent of agriculture, sports activities, defence and catastrophe administration.
Source: www.thehindu.com
