NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission releases ATL Drone Module at Aero India

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New Delhi : NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and Drona Aviation, an IIT Bombay start-up, launched the ‘ATL Drone module: Get, Set, Go’ for Atal Tinkering Labs at the ongoing Aero India 2019 at Bengaluru. The ATL Drone Module was launched by Dr G Satish Reddy, Chairman, DRDO, and Sanjay Jaju, Joint Secretary,  Department of Defence Production, along with Apurva Godbole, CEO, Drona Aviation and representatives of AIM.

The idea of flying has always been a fascinating concept for all young as well as old. “With the ATL Drone Module, young students of India will learn how to create their own drones and use them for solving community problems in India, said Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog.

“ In the age of the Fourth industrial revolution, drones are one of the most promising technologies integrating the concepts of physics, maths, chemistry, engineering, and sensor technologies creating a tremendous range of innovative solutions that can be developed using them,” said R Ramanan, Mission Director, AIM.

Drona Aviation is India’s first developer drone company with a focus on drone innovation. The ATL Drone Module aims at building this open source community of tinkerers who will learn and build on drone ideas to showcase their many possible application. “Created with iterations and feedback from hundreds of students and teachers over the last three years, we hope  this module can be the spark and twig to start the fire of drone revolution in our country,” said Godbole.

Atal Innovation Mission, housed at NITI Aayog, is Government of India’s flagship initiative to foster a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship across India, according to a PIB release.