The Ministry of Civil Aviation announced the Drone Rules 2021, under this, the number of forms that need to be filled to operate drones has been reduced from 25 to 5 and the types of fees charged from the operator have been decreased from 72 to 4. Besides that several approvals that were previously needed under the previous Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Rules, 2021 has been abolished and new procedures are in place.

BusinessLine Shishir Sinha tells us more about Drone Rules 2021.