Ministry of Civil Aviation urges various ministries to promote use of drones.

Welfare

1. Crop and soil health monitoring
2. Irrigation estimation and scheduling
3. Requirement and efficacy assessment of fertilizer and pesticide spraying
4. Anti-locust operations
5. Crop output estimates
6. River and canal erosion; restoration tracking
7. Insurance claim surveys

1. Delivery of medicines, equipment and other
2. supplies
3. Pathology tests – sample collection from remote or epidemic/ pandemic affected areas

1. Land records and property rights (SVAMITVA Scheme)

1. Surveillance
2. Combat
3. Communication in remote areas
4. Swarm drone solutions
5. Counter drone solutions

announcements and evidence gathering for:

1. Security of sensitive installations
2. Raids and counter-terror operations
3. Crowd management
4. Crime control
5. VVIP security
6. Disaster management; search and rescue; transportation of food, medicines and essentials
7. Traffic management

1. Urban planning and management
2. Construction planning and monitoring
3. Incident reporting
4. Prevention of encroachment and land-use alteration

1. Surveillance
2. Incident response
3. Inspection and maintenance
4. Project monitoring
5. Disaster management

1. Monitoring and Inspection
2. Automatic surveying and mapping
3. Stockpile assessment and management
4. Haulage road optimisation

1. Real-time surveillance of assets and transmission lines
2. Theft prevention and incident response
3. Visual inspection and maintenance
4. Construction plannlng and management

Gas

1. Real-time surveillance of assets and pipelines
2. Theft prevention and incident response
3. Visual inspection and maintenance
4. Construction planning and management

and Climate Change

1. Monitoring of forests and wildlife
2. Afforestation through seed-balls, irrigation and real-time monitoring
3. Anti-poaching actions
4. Pollution assessment and evidence-gathering

1. High quality videography of events and
2. difficult-to-reach-places at a fraction of the cost and approvals required
3. Low altitude shooting without noise and-dust  pollution and risk of accidents
4. Complete replacement of costly helicopter- based videography