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New Delhi : Launching the first-of-its-kind Drone driven aerial delivery facility to transport Covid vaccine as well as Emergency Medicine to inaccessible and difficult areas in a short span of time, Union Science & Technology MInister Dr Jitendra Singh on November 27, 2021, said that while Pakistan Drone carries explosives to spread terror and threaten human lives, the Indian drone has assumed the role of a Covid warrior to carry life saving Vaccine and life saving medicine for safety and well-being of mankind. This indeed is the fundamental difference between the two countries,Dr Singh said.
Referring to the first consignment of 50 vials of Covid vaccine which was dropped by the Drone near the International Border (IB) in Marh area, Dr Singh said the “Octacopter” Drone ,which was developed indigenously at Bengaluru at the initiative of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) under the Ministry of Science & Technology, is truly a massenger of peace. While Pakistan is using Drone to disrupt peace, the Indian Drone has carried to the International Border the message of protecting lives from Covid and ensuring health and well being for everybody.
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Dr Singh said, India’s Vaccination drive has turned into a mass campaign and every citizen is trying to make an appropriate contribution to it. “We, in the Ministry of Science & Technology, also decided to join Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ campaign by developing a Drone which would reach households in far-flung and difficulty areas which lack means of transport and thus the Drone would perform the function of knocking at the door of every home to ensure that not a single person remains without vaccination,” he added.
On the occasion, Dr Singh, in the presence of Advisor Health to Lieutenant Governor Jammu & Kashmir Rajeev Bhatnagar, formally handed over the first consignment of Covid vaccine to Drone operators, who then mounted the same on the Drone which it took off for its air journey.
Dr Singh said that the successful aerial delivery of Covid-19 vaccine from CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu, to Government Sub-District Hospital, Marh, Jammu, shows the commitment of the Modi Government towards healthcare needs of the masses in remote areas. The road distance from Jammu to Marh is about 15 km and takes 50 to 60 minutes by road, but the Octacopter delivered the vaccine within 20 minutes. C