Via PTI
NAUPADA: Hetaram Satnami, a bodily challenged guy who lives in a far flung village in Odisha’s Nuapada district, needed to shuttle 2 km each and every month thru a dense woodland to assemble his govt pension.
This month, then again, he didn’t have to stand the ordeal as a drone got here with the money and dropped it at his space in Bhutkapada village in Bhaleswar panchayat space.
“The sarpanch despatched the cash with the assistance of a drone. It is a large reduction for me because the panchayat workplace is over 2 km clear of the village, which is surrounded via a dense woodland,” stated a beaming Satnami, who’s a beneficiary of the state’s Madhu Babu Pension Yojana.
Sarpanch Saroj Agarwal stated she purchased a drone on-line upon getting to learn about Satnami’s ordeal.
“In our panchayat space, there’s a village positioned within the woodland, Bhutkapada. A physically-challenged guy, Hetaram Satanami, lives in that village. He can not transfer, since beginning,” Agarwal stated.
“I enrolled him for the pension below the state scheme. I’ve noticed how issues are despatched thru drones in different international locations. That is why I positioned the order for a drone and were given the cash brought to his doorstep,” she stated.
Subadar Pradhan, the block building officer (BDO) of Nuapada, stated it was once made imaginable with Agarwal’s personal initiative as the federal government does now not have the availability to shop for such units to ship products and services.
Drones are getting used the world over to ship other items, together with drugs, parcels, groceries and meals, however handing over money, that too in India, is a first-of-a-kind initiative.
NAUPADA: Hetaram Satnami, a bodily challenged guy who lives in a far flung village in Odisha’s Nuapada district, needed to shuttle 2 km each and every month thru a dense woodland to assemble his govt pension.
This month, then again, he didn’t have to stand the ordeal as a drone got here with the money and dropped it at his space in Bhutkapada village in Bhaleswar panchayat space.
“The sarpanch despatched the cash with the assistance of a drone. It is a large reduction for me because the panchayat workplace is over 2 km clear of the village, which is surrounded via a dense woodland,” stated a beaming Satnami, who’s a beneficiary of the state’s Madhu Babu Pension Yojana.
Sarpanch Saroj Agarwal stated she purchased a drone on-line upon getting to learn about Satnami’s ordeal.
“In our panchayat space, there’s a village positioned within the woodland, Bhutkapada. A physically-challenged guy, Hetaram Satanami, lives in that village. He can not transfer, since beginning,” Agarwal stated.
“I enrolled him for the pension below the state scheme. I’ve noticed how issues are despatched thru drones in different international locations. That is why I positioned the order for a drone and were given the cash brought to his doorstep,” she stated.
Subadar Pradhan, the block building officer (BDO) of Nuapada, stated it was once made imaginable with Agarwal’s personal initiative as the federal government does now not have the availability to shop for such units to ship products and services.
Drones are getting used the world over to ship other items, together with drugs, parcels, groceries and meals, however handing over money, that too in India, is a first-of-a-kind initiative.