Technology has played a major role in expanding the reach of services and schemes, and drones are fast becoming an integral part of this revolution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on 27 May 2022, reiterating his government’s big bet on a new technology he said will lead to “antyodaya” (welfare for all).
Modi was addressing the opening session of the Bharat Drone Mahotsav, 2022 exhibition at Delhi’s Pragati Maidan, where he said that a range of sectors from agriculture, to health care, to defence, to disaster management, to entertainment stand to benefit from these devices.
“It’s my dream to see every farm equipped with drones,” he said, billing them as one of the centrepieces of the government’s focus on using technology for welfare.
“In the past, technological inventions were considered a reserve of only the elite classes. Today, we are making technology available for the masses,” he added during an event where he also met “Kisan drone” pilots – farmers who received their certificates after being trained on how to operate these devices.
