- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
IN a business-to-humanitarian aid shift, drones manufactured by India’s drone start-up Garuda Aerospace that were meant for food delivery platform Swiggy’s delivery trials, were recently used in the states of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh to reach food and other necessary drugs to people hit by their flood situation caused by heavy rain.
A press release issued by the start-up based in Chennai in the southern state of Tamil Nadu quoted an official of India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) as saying, “Garuda Aerospace has designed these drones for delivery purpose for Swiggy which was used during the Assam floods for delivering essential supplies such as food, water and medicine to victims and survivors.”
Moneycontrol News reported.
The flying machines were deployed in Vadodara in Gujarat and Guntur in Andhra Pradesh.
“After successful implementation of drones to support flood victims in Assam, NDRF has deployed two more Garuda Aerospace teams to tackle the flood situations in Vadodara, Gujarat and Guntur, Andhra Pradesh to support NDRF officials with surveillance and delivery drones,” Moneycontrol quoted Agnishwar Jayaprakash, founder and chief executive officer of Garuda Aerospace, as saying.
It was in April that Swiggy, a popular food-delivery platform in India, said that four drone start-ups were chosen for a pilot project that involves conducting supply runs for the platform’s grocery service Instamart.
