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This gold-medallist swimmer's enterprise flies drones to kill Coronavirus

Garuda Aerospace, whose drones have been spraying disinfectants in Chennai Corporation areas and govt hospitals, has also won orders from Varanasi for sanitising several parts of the city

Agnishwar Jayaprakash, founder, Garuda Aerospace
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Agnishwar Jayaprakash, founder, Garuda Aerospace

T E Narasimhan Chennai
Way back in 2014, Doordarshan was telecasting a science reality show in which young school-going innovators were demonstrating their ideas. The winners were announced in quite a unique manner -- a drone showered chocolates on them. These winners are now using that very technology to shower disinfectants on schools, colleges and government offices in order to get rid of the killer Coronavirus and make these premises what they ‘Corona Killer 100 (CK100)’.

Chennai-based Garuda Aerospace, promoted by Asian gold medalist swimmer and young entrepreneur Agnishwar Jayaprakash, was launched in 2015. But right from the beginning, the firm had one objective
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