Himachal chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Friday said that the State Government is committed to introduce drone enabled governance extensively in different departments to facilitate people of the State and monitoring at different levels.
Presiding over a meeting of the Information Technology Department here, he said that the IT department in collaboration with the Drone Company has conducted medical trials in Chamba, Kullu and Mandi districts and the results have been encouraging. He directed IT to submit the rules proposal regarding the usage of drones within a time period of 15 days.
Sukhu said that for drone operations, the IT department would be the nodal agency and Deputy Commissioners of districts concerned would extend logistic support to the concerned department willing to use drone technology. He said the Deputy Commissioners would also identify places for developing drone hubs. He said that this would also bring efficiency in the working of the departments.
He said that Drone Technology has significant potential in monitoring law and order, disaster management, supervision of electricity supply lines, agriculture, horticulture, health delivery, road surface condition monitoring, assessment of tourists movement, illicit mining and illicit felling of trees. He said that this technology would be more useful especially in snow bound areas of the State.
