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Coronavirus has brought into focus the need to be vigilant about our health and hygiene at all times. All over the world, people are becoming conscious even when sneezing. Thus it is important that high levels of sanitation are maintained across the world. Therefore in times of need, we all look towards the heroes of our society. Unlike comic books, we do not have masked people flying around saving us. However, we have something close.
What’s In It?
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has sanctioned drones from the 24th of March that will fly across major areas in the city to sanitize and disinfect the localities. Major M Goutham Kumar who flagged off this sanitation drive has spoken about the mission to contain the spread of this virus across the 198 wards in the city.
Four drone operators namely- Neel Sagar G, aerospace engineer, Nishanth Murali, civil engineer, Vinay Kumar, aeronautical engineer, and Naga Praveen, electronic engineer are all in their early 20s have been working from 9 am to 6 pm every day to disinfect the areas.
What’s More?
Neel Sagar, the founder of Alpha Drone Technology, the drone startup hired by the civic body mentions that these drones can carry up to 15 litres of disinfectants and fly up to 20 to 25 feet and are operational up to 7 hours a day.
Currently, tractors with 6000-7000 litres holding capacity are used with each drone containing 10 jetting machines and are extensively used to disinfect bus stands, markets, and other areas.
The BBMP is also spraying sodium hypochlorite solution and testing them in Central Bangalore as well as in areas where quarantined people reside. Major places like Town Hall circle, Hudson Circle are covered too. However, many areas are yet to be covered and the civic body is taking measures to disinfect these areas. But for now, we really laud this innovative measure taken to disinfect major areas of Bangalore, and we hope many more cities follow suit.