Drone Cameras for Railways

West Central Railways with headquarters in Jabalpur has become the first Zonal Railway to procure Drone cameras (UAV/NETRA) to be used for various railway activities especially project monitoring and maintenance of tracks and other railway infrastructure.

Drone cameras shall be deployed to undertake monitoring activities of relief and rescue operation, project monitoring, progress of important works, conditions of track and inspection related activities. It shall also be used to assess preparedness of Non- Interlocking (NI) works, crowd management during fairs and melas, to identify scrap and also for aerial survey of station yards. It is going to be instrumental in providing realtime inputs related to safety and maintenance of tracks and other railway infrastructure.