In its effort to contain Covid-19 through technology, premiere defence laboratory ITR, Chandipur, here has ramped up its preventive measures including a number of innovative ideas, in its premises as well as in Baleswar town.
On Sunday, it carried out disinfection through a drone. The drone developed with IIT Chennai sprayed disinfectants along the OT Road. An ITR sanitisation team led by Director Dr BK Das also carried out sanitisation of traffic police stations, SP office, Reserve Police Line.
“The drone-based sanitisation has the advantage of sanitising potentially contaminated areas remotely without exposing the operator into any sort of risk. Moreover, the drone can easily sanitise the areas which otherwise cannot be accessed by large fire tender based wide area sanitisation system,” said Dr Das.
Besides Dr Das, several other senior officers including Associate Director HK Ratha, Additional Directors B Sucharita, RK Behera, Sanjay Kumar and Niladri Roy, Group Directors P K Mohanty, MK Pal and Dr Sukanta Das were also present.
Meanwhile, in order to meet the requirement of hand sanitisation at the workplace, a dedicated team of ITR officers and staffs continue to produce isopropyl alcohol-based hand sanitiser as per WHO formulation. More than 700 litres of hand sanitiser has already been produced by the team.