CHENNAI: The State Development Policy Council is exploring the possibility of making Tamil Nadu a drone manufacturing hub, using the technology developed by Anna University. A meeting to discuss ‘setting up of drone corporation in Tamil Nadu’ was held under C Ponniyan, vice-chairman, State Development Policy Council (SDPC) with stakeholder departments and technical institutions. Dr Mylswamy Annadurai, vice president, Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology made a presentation on the project.
The drones have a wide scope in various sectors such as agriculture, disaster management, health, forest and wildlife, education, urban development, traffic management, mining, among others. Anil Meshram, member secretary, SDPC; R Lilly, additional secretary, Higher Education department; Elangovan, senior general manager, TIDCO; officials from various departments, vice-chancellors of Anna University and Thiruvalluvar University and the director of Centre for Aerospace Research, MIT/Anna University participated in the meeting.