The drone airspace map comes as a follow-through of the liberalized Drone Rules, 2021 released by the Central Government on August 25 2021, the PLI scheme for drones released on September 15, 2021 and the Geospatial Data Guidelines issued on February 15, 2021
In another step to realise the vision of an Aatmanirbhar Bharat, the Central Government released India’s airspace map for drone operations. The map is available on DGCA’s digital sky platform at https://digitalsky.dgca.gov.in/home.
The drone airspace map comes as a follow-through of the liberalized Drone Rules, 2021 released by the Central Government on August 25 2021, the PLI scheme for drones released on September 15, 2021 and the Geospatial Data Guidelines issued on February 15, 2021. All these policy reforms will catalyse super-normal growth in the upcoming drone sector.
Drones offer tremendous benefits to almost all sectors of the economy. These include – agriculture, mining, infrastructure, surveillance, emergency response, transportation, geo-spatial mapping, defence, and law enforcement to name a few. Drones can be significant creators of employment and economic growth due to their reach, versatility, and ease of use, especially in India’s remote and inaccessible areas.
The drone services industry is expected to grow to over INR 30,000 crore in next three years. The drone services industry is expected to generate over five lakh jobs in three years
Given its traditional strengths in innovation, information technology, frugal engineering and its huge domestic demand, India has the potential of becoming a global drone hub by 2030.
Thanks to the new rules, the drone PLI scheme and the freely accessible drone airspace maps, the drones and drone components manufacturing industry may see an investment of over INR 5,000 crore over the next three years. The annual sales turnover of the drone manufacturing industry may grow from INR 60 crore in 2020-21 fold to over INR 900 crore in FY 2023-24. The drone manufacturing industry is expected to generate over 10,000 direct jobs over the next three years.
The drone services industry (operations, mapping, surveillance, agri-spraying, logistics, data analytics, software development etc.) will grow to an even larger scale. It is expected to grow to over INR 30,000 crore in next three years. The drone services industry is expected to generate over five lakh jobs in three years.
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