Neel Sagar G is an aerospace engineer, Nishant Murali is a Civil Engineer, Vinay Kumar is an aeronautical engineer and Naga Praveen is an electronics engineer. Neel said that they had built these drones about 6 months ago with the help of the Aeroscience department of Indian Institute of Science. Subsequently, they were contacted by the Indian Institute of Horticulture to spray pesticides on plants. Since they have a proven record BBMP has contacted them to spray the disinfectant.

Spraying of disinfectant via drones is desirable as it covers both land and air. So far the public places such as bus stands, railway stations and markets in areas around Krishna Rajendra Market(KR Market) such as Vasant Nagar, Vyalikaval, Sadashivnagar, Maleshwaram, Town circle, Hudson Circle and the adjoining areas, Bangalore Mirror reported.

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Flagging off the sanitisation drive, Mayor M Goutham Kumar said that the civic body’s aim is to contain the spread of COVID-19 and prevent the outbreak of an epidemic in all the 198 wards. “Our personnel will be spraying Sodium hypochlorite solution as a disinfectant to arrest the spread of COVID-19 illness”, Deccan Herald reported. 

The city civic body is taking up the fight on a war footing and is even mulling the use of fire trucks to spray disinfectants across all wards in Benagaluru. The efforts of the civic body are extremely commendable.