GUWAHATI: NECTAR has launched four training modules on Geospatial Technology applications to train and build students and unemployed youths from the North East region into professional resource persons with the introduction to Drone awareness and certified Remote Pilot Training.
To address the basic troubleshooting issues while operating Drone Flying and developing of Drones, a 5-day training program on Drone Awareness in collaboration with IHub Foundation for Cobotics (IHFC), a Technology Innovation Hub of IIT Delhi was launched with effect from May 8-12, 2023.
The program was inaugurated in the Training Hall of the NECTAR Techno Demonstration Centre, Khanapara on May 8, 2023, by Dr Arvind C Ranade, Director, National Innovation Foundation (NIF), Gandhinagar.
The training course is designed to get practical training through various types of Drone assembling, Drone flying simulation and awareness of Drone components for candidates of minimum matriculate standard, has been programmed. 21 candidates from different educational backgrounds from the states of Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur including candidates from West Bengal, and Bihar registered for the 5-day program.
The training modules will enable people of the region with better job opportunities in both Government and Private sectors.
The mandate of NIF to identify grassroots innovators, nature and value addition of technologies and NECTAR in terms of capacity building plays a crucial role in the collaboration between the two organizations complementing each other. The program was also graced by Dr Jaideep Barua, Director, Assam Science and Technology and Environment Council (ASTEC), who addressed the participants with the scope and application of drones in agriculture, monitoring, surveillance, disaster and rescue operations.
Dr Arun Kumar Sarma, Director General NECTAR addressed the participants with the aims and objectives of this initiative that NECTAR wants to create a drone technology ecosystem in North Eastern region.
