Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday said the Union government will draw a national plan for helicopter emergency medical services in the country and a pilot project towards it would soon be launched at AIIMS Rishikesh.
Mr. Scindia said that under the pilot project ‘Sanjeevani’, a helicopter will be deployed in the next few weeks to provide emergency medical services at AIIMS Rishikesh. The helicopter will have a service cover of 150 km radius and will provide emergency evacuation within 20 minutes. This project will help the government in drafting the national policy, the Minister said, speaking at the fourth Heli-India summit in Srinagar.
The Minister on the day also unveiled the guidelines for a new initiative called “fractional ownership” of helicopters, under which multiple owners share the cost of acquisition and operation of the aircraft in return for rights to use them for a specified number of hours or days in a year.
