Hyderabad: There is a growing chorus among drone manufacturers asking authorities to provide earmarked flying zones for testing drones as currently, such facilities are available only at select defence labs.
“Government needs to set up a miniature drone city to enable manufacturers to test drones,” said Sanjay Sharma, VP, Cyient Solutions & Systems, Cyient’s JV with Israel’s Bluebird. Ankit Mehta, CEO of ideaForge, said the government can create a level-playing field for industrial license holders vis-a-vis non-license holding manufacturers and importers, who sell fully built or CKDs to end customers without value addition in India, and grey market drones by stepping up information dissemination.
He also sought removal of ambiguities in export norms under sections of SCOMET (Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipment and Technologies) list.
