Lok Sabha Question No. 1047 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-12-21
Subject: Regulation on Use of Drones
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: PRABHAS KUMAR SINGH, VINOD KUMAR BOIANAPALLI, CH. MALLA REDDY, MEENAKASHI LEKHI, KONDA VISHWESHWAR REDDY, T.G. VENKATESH BABU, UDIT RAJ

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: : 1047

## LOK SABHA

(To be answered on the December 2017) 21st

## Regulation on Use of Drones

1047.

PROF CHINTAMANI MALVIYA SHRI B. VINOD KUMAR SHRI CH: MALLA REDDY SHRIMATI MEENAKASHI LEKHI SHRI KONDA VISHWESHWAR REDDY SHRI VENKATESH BABU T.G. DR UDIT RAJ '

Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

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be pleased to state:-

- (a) the number of cases of drones Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) which are 4 hazard for aeroplanes detected around airports across the country during the last three Years and current year, year-wise;
- (c) the number of complaints in this regard received from pilots across the country and the efforts made by the government to curb such incidents which are a grave threat to flight safety; being
- (b) whether the Union Government has formulated any action plan for neutralizing drones, banning the use of drone cameras around airports across the country and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether the Government has published Draft Guidelines on drone regulation taking into account international standards;
- which currently use drones for their operations; and
- (e) whether Government agencies and private players are allowed to use drones for purposes such as monitoring oilfields and coalfields, if so the details of the Government and private organizations
- whether the Government has any proposal to introduce a licensing system for operation of drones/unmanned aerial vehicles and if s0, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

- The number of cases of drones (UFOs) which are a hazard for geroplanes, Getected around airports across the country, year-wise, are as below:

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2017 (till 15.12.17) 18 the civil use of drones/ unmanned aircraft systems (6) DGCA has restricted organizations or individual until a (UAS) by non-Government agencies, (CAR) comes into effect: dedicated Civil Aviation Requirements

2014

Nil

2015

2016

09

- (0) No such information is available with this Ministry:

Agencies/ PSUs were issued no-obiections for operation (e) Only Government Details have been enciosed at Annexure-A\_ of civil UAS for various purposes: However; in the (f) There is n0 proposal to Introduce any licensing draft CAR there is a provision for issuance of Unmanned Aircraft Operator Permit (UAOP) above certain weight category of drones. system

- the No dedicated international standard is available &8 of now: Howeveea Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR) on operations 0f Remotely Piloted Aircraft System.

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| $ No.   | Application Date   | From                                                                                                  | For Org                                                                       | Purpose                                                                                                                                                                   | Issue Date   |                                   |
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|         | 4/2912015          | Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)                                                                    | Cineteve, Frarice                                                             | Aerial" Filming for the documerilary 'Inhabiting the 'Norld' holy  city and its architecture' Varanasi from 2nd Gth November, 2015                                        |              | XFM Section                       |
| 2       |                    | Odisha Space Applications Centre (ORSAC) , Odissa                                                     | ORSAC , Odissa                                                                | Research and Development program for specific areas                                                                                                                       | 9/21/2015    | ORSAC                             |
|         | 971/2015           | State Disaster Response Force ; {SDFR) , Dehredun                                                     | SDFR, Dehradun                                                                | Rescure operation during disaster                                                                                                                                         | 9121/2015    | SDRF                              |
|         | 7124/2015          | National Tiger Cunservation Authority (Under ttie Ministry of Environment; Forest and Climate Change) | NTCA , MEFCC                                                                  | Surveillance and Habitat Monitoring Protection of Tigers                                                                                                                  | 10/14/2015   | NTCA                              |
| 5       | 721412015          | DG, CRPF                                                                                              | CRPF                                                                          | Trail   operations 0f Mini UAV for 2 days (4th and Sth Dec)                                                                                                               | 12/4/2015    | CRPF                              |
|         | 12/11/2015         | Power Grid Corp                                                                                       | Fower Grid Corp                                                               | survey and inspection cf Power Transmission                                                                                                                               | 1/1/2015     | Power Grid Corp                   |
|         | 12714/2015         | North East Centre for Technolcgy Appiication and Reach (NECTAR)                                       |                                                                               | Moniloring and planning of development activilies                                                                                                                         | 7/13/2016    | NECFAR                            |
| 8       | 1/2112016          | Flood and River Erosion Management Agency of Assam (FREMAA)                                           | Flood and River Erosion Managemerit figericy of Assam (FREMAA)                | Aerial photography and suivey pf the enrire Erahmaputra reach ir; Assam                                                                                                   | 1/21/2016    | Dr. KK Dwivedi, IAS, CEC , FREMAA |
| 9       | 71/6/2016          | Chief Conservatcr 0i Forest & Field Director, Tiger Project Daltonganj                                | Deparlment Forest   Environrnent and Cirnate Ctiange; Government of Jharkhand | tracking of wild elecharits straying close to numan habitatiori and keep vigil poachers, tirnber smugglers arid control of forest fires in Letehar and Garhia district of | 3121/2016    | CCFRFD                            |
| 10      | 3/412016           | of Department Agriculture Research ard Ecucation Iridian Council of Agricultural Research             | Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Weltare                                   | Jharkhand To stiowcase the application potential of low flying UAV based sersors for crop condition and soil health rionitoring in Fair- Agricultural                     | 3/8/2016     | Secretary 8 DG, DARE & ICAR       |

|   11 | 2124/2016   | MNCFC , New Delhi                                                   | MNCFC                                                      | Agriculture: collecting high resolution images using drores through NECTAR                                                | 3/15/2016   | MNCFC                                          |
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|   12 | 41412016    | CRPF , Delhi                                                        | CRPF ; Delhi                                               | of CRPF persorinel' s at CRPF Jharoda Kalan , Najalgarh, Delhi irom 05-04- 2016 to 25- 04- 2016                           | 4/4/2016    | CRPF                                           |
|   13 | 415/2016    | SP, Ujjain, MP                                                      | Madhya Pradesh Police                                      | Aerial Surveillance                                                                                                       | 4/11/2016   | SP Ujjain                                      |
|   14 | 4/29/2016   | Division of Agricuitural Engineering, ICAR- IARI; New Delhi         | IIT Kharagpur                                              | Agriculture sprayirig  pesticides on crops                                                                                | 5/4/2016    |                                                |
|   15 | 4/29/2016   | Air Headquarters                                                    | Science & Techriology Govt. of India                       | Aerial Survey in and around Air Force Station Gurgaon                                                                     | 5/6/2016    | WgCdr P Prasad) Air headquarters               |
|   16 | 51412016    | CRPF , Delhi                                                        | CRPF , Delhi                                               | training of CRPF personriel's at CRPF , Taloja, Navi Mumbai irom 09- 05-2016 to 13-05- 2016 and 16-05- 2016 to 2C-05-2016 | 5/5/2016    | Shri , PR Jhia, DC (UAV), CRFF                 |
|   17 | 5/1/2016    | BCCI                                                                | Quidich                                                    | Aerial Filming                                                                                                            |             | BCCI                                           |
|   18 | 5/20/2016   | GAIL (India) Lid                                                    | Ms Delair Tech France                                      | Surveiilance of gas pipeline                                                                                              | 5/24/2016   | GAIL (India) Lid                               |
|   19 | 5119/2016   | India                                                               | IIT Madras                                                 | Aerial Mapping                                                                                                            | 5/31/2016   | AAI                                            |
|   20 | 6/28/2016   | Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Lirnited                              | Ws Technologies, Nagpur Sky                                | Aeriai Survey for rietro Iine                                                                                             | 8/8/2016    | NMRCL                                          |
|   21 |             | Fower Grid Corp                                                     | Power Grid Corp                                            | Tower topi aerial patroliing                                                                                              | 71716/2016  | Kolkata                                        |
|   22 | 8/11/2016   | Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited, Ranchi            | Ceritral Mine Planriing & Design Institute Limited, Ranchi | Survey7 Mapping                                                                                                           |             | CMPDI Ltd. Ranchi                              |
|   23 | 10/19/2016  | Tamil Nadu Forest Deparlment: tnforest@nic in                       | Tamil Nadu Forest Departinent tnforest@nic.in              | No objeclion required for pfocurenient of drones _                                                                        | 11/4/2016   | Tamil Nadu   Forest Department:                |
|   24 |             | Additional Director General,   Ministry  of Tourism, New Celhi      | ITC hotels & The Luxury Collection                         | Aeriai  photography videography                                                                                           | 10/21/2016  | Ministry 0f Tourism                            |
|   25 | 10/21/2016  | Signal Training School, BSF, Delhi New                              | Signal Training School, BSF New Delhi                      | Technicai evaluation of micro- UAV as of Tender Enquiry part                                                              | 10/26/2016  | Signal Training School, Delhi New              |
|   26 |             | Energy, Infrastriicture Investment and CRDA Departmerits, Hyderabad | APSFL, Government of Andhre Pradesh                        | Trnpon 8 of drones for governarice purposes                                                                               | 10/26/2016  | APSFL, Government of Andhra Pradesh            |
|   27 | 11/8/2016   | olo Deputy Commissioner of Police Provisioning & Logistics_Delhi_   | "Indago VTOL, IdeaForge Etc.                               | Demorisfration for aeriai suIveiliance                                                                                    | 1/30/2017   | olo Deputy Commissioner of Police Provisioning |
|   28 | 12/29/2016  | Signal Training BSF New Delhi                                       | Signal Training School, BSF , New Delhi                    | Cleararice for micro-IJAV flight                                                                                          | 1/9/2017    | Signal Training School, BSF , New Delhi        |

| 29   |           | MNCFC , New Delhi                                               | NECTAR, Gol                                                                  | use Agricultural                                       |                     | Director New Deihi                                                                |
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| 30   | 2/8/2017  | Power Grid Corp                                                 | Power Grid Corp                                                              | Aerial Survey Powerlines                               | 212712017           | AGM; Gurgaon Muricipal                                                            |
| 31   | 2128/2017 | Municipal Daund Council                                         | Scierce & Technology Park; University of Purie                               | Aerial survay                                          | 3/24/2017           | Daund Council                                                                     |
| 32   | 2/22/2017 | Jalgaon Citv Municipal Corporation                              | Science Techriology Park; University of Pune                                 | Aerial survey                                          | 3/24/2017           | Jalgaon Gity Mlunicipal Corporatior                                               |
| 33   | 3/1872017 | Bihar State Disaster Managerent Authority, Patna                | Skymet weather services Lid . Noida pvt                                      | Bihar showcase Divas 2017                              |                     | Management Authority, Fatna                                                       |
| 34   | 413/2077  | National Capital Transport Regiori Corporation, New Delhi       | Mls Quidich Innovation Labs Pvt Ltd                                          | Aerial survey                                          | 5/17/2017           | National Capital Region Transport Corporation; New Delhi North Eastern            |
| 35   |           | Eastern North Varariasi Railway,                                | Mis Indshine Energy Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi                                      | Aerial Survey                                          |                     | Railway, Varanasi                                                                 |
|      |           | HP State Council for Science   Technology & Environment, Shimla | Sensfly, Switzerland & Sharda University                                     | permission Import & aerial sulvey                      | 7131/2017           | HP State Council for Science Technology & Environment;, Shimila CSIR-Institute of |
| 37   | 512212017 | of CSIR-Institute Hinalayan Bioresource Facamplogyp_            | CSIR-Institute of Hirralayan Bioresource Technologv,                         | objection No required procurement of drories           | 6/15/2017           | Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, HP Chief Project                      |
| 38   | 6/9/2017  | 0f Uttarakhand Secretariat                                      | olo Chief Project Director, Uttarakharid Forest Resources Management Project | Aerial Survay                                          |                     | Director, Uttarakhand Forest Resources Managernent Project NTPC Limited,          |
| 39   | 6/23/2017 | ED, NTPC Limited, Noida                                         | Ncida                                                                        | Survey_ Aerial and inspection monitoring of NTPC sites | 7/6/2017            | ED, Noica                                                                         |
| 40   | 7124/2017 | the Office General of Surveyor India, Dehradun                  | Oliice of the Surveyor Genzral of India; Dehradur                            | Aerial Survey                                          | 912712017           | Office of the India; Dehradun                                                     |
| 41   |           | DIG (Communications) CRPF , New DG, Delhi_                      | DIG (Communications) CRPF , Ne Delhi                                         | Trial operations                                       | 8/30/2017           | DIG (Communications) DG, CRPF New Delhi                                           |
| 42   | 812412077 | Seema New Delhi                                                 | 23BN SSB Antagarh {Chattisgarh)_                                             | Aerial Surveillance                                    | 9/612017            | Sahastra Seema Bal; MHA, New Delhi                                                |
| 43   | 9/14/2017 |                                                                 |                                                                              | Fermission Import                                      | 70/612017 10/6/2017 | TT , Guwahati                                                                     |
| 44   | 9128/2017 | Seena Bal, Delhi                                                | 15th BN SSB New Jammui (Bihar)                                               | Aerial Surveillance                                    | 70710/2017          | Sashastra Seema Bel, MHA, New Delhi Hindustan                                     |
| 45   | 9/2212017 | Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Mumbai                          | Idea Forge Technology Pvt  Ltcl Ltd,                                         | Rewari Kanpur Pipeline Survey                          |                     | Petroleum Ccrporation Ltd , Mumbai                                                |

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