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Indian Railways to Use Drones Developed By IIT-Roorkee
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Indian Railways to Use Drones Developed By IIT-Roorkee

Indian Railways is very soon starting deployment of drones to monitor rail tracks, a step that will help national transporter focus on the safety aspect. According to the reports, under an initiative of the telecom industry and the railways, IIT Roorkee has developed drones which are currently being tested on the tracks around the Uttarakhand town. Anurag Vibhuti, deputy director of TCOE India said, The Indian Railways is in the advanced stages of considering deploying unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor rail tracks using the technology developed by IIT-Roorkee. Notably, Telecom Centres of Excellence abbreviated as TCOE is a public-private telecom body under which RailTel Corporation( railways’ broadband services arm) has partnered IIT-Roorkee to develop the drones that will help auto...
Mumbai Based Drone Startup Raises Rs 64 Lakhs
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Mumbai Based Drone Startup Raises Rs 64 Lakhs

Drona Aviation, a Nano drones company received Rs 64 Lakhs from Globevestor, existing investor SINE IIT Bombay and additional investors. Drona Aviation Private Limited prepared 865 preference shares worth Rs 100 each and a premium of Rs 7377 per share. Previously, SINE IIT Bombay invested Rs 10 lakhs in the startup. Drona Aviation was founded by three IIT alumni namely Apurva Godbole, Prasanna Shevare and Dinesh Sain. The company specializes in the building of drones that are meant to be lighter than 100g meant for industrial and civic applications. Presently, the startup is focusing almost solely on drone cinematography. Up to now, the startup has only developed one prototype of Nano drone called Pluto which is a quick, robust and light drone with an open source firmware and a du...