The ‘Namo Drone Didi’ scheme will provide new opportunities and empowerment to rural women

• Central Sector Scheme providing drones to Women SHGs for rental agri-services (spraying fertilizers/pesticides).
• Convergence model linking DAY-NRLM SHGs, Department of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare (DA&FW), Department of Rural Development (DoRD), Department of Fertilizers (DoF) and Lead Fertilizer Companies (LFCs).
• Operationalises the Lakhpati Didi vision and India's agri-drone policy push — high-yield UPSC overlap of GS-II (women, SHG, governance) and GS-III (agri-tech, rural economy).