When Shashi Bala, the daughter of a farmer in Himachal Pradesh’s Garli village in Kangra district, saw an ad on Facebook for a drone programme, free for women at IIT Mandi, she assumed it was fake. So she cross-checked on another website, found it was correct and promptly signed up.
Designed to train women to use drones for agriculture—spraying pesticide and fertiliser, for instance—the two-and-a-half-month Drone Didi programme equips women like Shashi Bala with the skills to operate and maintain drones.
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