Drone delivers govt pension to disabled man in distant Odisha village

By PTI

NAUPADA:  Hetaram Satnami, a bodily challenged man who lives in a distant village in Odisha’s Nuapada district, needed to journey 2 km each month via a dense forest to gather his authorities pension.

This month, nonetheless, he didn’t need to face the ordeal as a drone got here with the money and dropped it at his home in Bhutkapada village in Bhaleswar panchayat space.

“The sarpanch sent the money with the help of a drone. It’s a big relief for me as the panchayat office is over 2 km away from the village, which is surrounded by a dense forest,” 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 after attending to find out about Satnami’s ordeal.

“In our panchayat area, there is a village located in the forest, Bhutkapada. A physically-challenged man, Hetaram Satanami, lives in that village. He can’t move, since birth,” Agarwal stated.

“I enrolled him for the pension under the state scheme. I have seen how things are sent through drones in other countries. That’s why I placed the order for a drone and got the money delivered to his doorstep,” she stated.

Subadar Pradhan, the block improvement officer (BDO) of Nuapada, stated it was made doable with Agarwal’s personal initiative as the federal government doesn’t have the availability to purchase such gadgets to ship companies.

Drones are getting used internationally to ship completely different items, together with medicines, parcels, groceries and meals, however delivering money, that too in India, is a first-of-a-kind initiative.

NAUPADA:  Hetaram Satnami, a bodily challenged man who lives in a distant village in Odisha’s Nuapada district, needed to journey 2 km each month via a dense forest to gather his authorities pension.

This month, nonetheless, he didn’t need to face the ordeal as a drone got here with the money and dropped it at his home in Bhutkapada village in Bhaleswar panchayat space.

“The sarpanch sent the money with the help of a drone. It’s a big relief for me as the panchayat office is over 2 km away from the village, which is surrounded by a dense forest,” 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 after attending to find out about Satnami’s ordeal.

“In our panchayat area, there is a village located in the forest, Bhutkapada. A physically-challenged man, Hetaram Satanami, lives in that village. He can’t move, since birth,” Agarwal stated.

“I enrolled him for the pension under the state scheme. I have seen how things are sent through drones in other countries. That’s why I placed the order for a drone and got the money delivered to his doorstep,” she stated.

Subadar Pradhan, the block improvement officer (BDO) of Nuapada, stated it was made doable with Agarwal’s personal initiative as the federal government doesn’t have the availability to purchase such gadgets to ship companies.

Drones are getting used internationally to ship completely different items, together with medicines, parcels, groceries and meals, however delivering money, that too in India, is a first-of-a-kind initiative.