DGCA compliance for commercial drone spraying in India

Commercial drone spraying in India sits inside a regulatory frame that most marketplaces gloss over: DGCA pilot licensing, drone UIN registration, and airspace zone classification (Digital Sky's red/yellow/green zones) all apply before a single mission gets dispatched.

On the pilot side, that means a marketplace coordinating spraying work has an obligation to verify licence category and currency before assigning a mission — not after a customer complaint.

On the drone side, every aircraft used for a mission needs a valid Unique Identification Number and, depending on category, additional certification appropriate to its weight class and payload (spraying payloads in particular fall under stricter operational scrutiny).

Sortie's dispatch model treats this as a pre-condition for assignment, not paperwork to chase later: pilot KYC and drone registration are checked before a pilot can be matched to a mission, and zone classification is part of the mission record alongside the evidence gate.

None of this replaces a pilot's own regulatory diligence. It does mean the platform coordinating the work is structured around compliance as a gate, not an afterthought.