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New Delhi: Shobhit Niranjan had an offer to join Mentor Graphics for seven lakhs per annum. US based Symantec wanted to recruit Mohit Mundra for nine lakhs per year. Raman Puri had a comfortable job at Hero Honda and a seat at IIM Lucknow.
But the 26-year-olds decided to grind their lucrative careers to a halt and fly into business. That of manufacturing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Raman Puri, founder, Aurora Integrated Systems said, "When we started the company in 2006, UAVs were coming up internationally and a lot of armed forces had started buying them. However, there was no one in India who was developing them. It was evident that India as a customer, would start proccuring these things soon."
Today, the Defense Research Development Organisation, the Council for Scientific and Industrial research, the Coast Guard and Delhi and Chennai Police forces are all important customers. But in the early days, convincing their families about this, was tough.
Founder of Aurora Integrated Systems Vineet Singh said, "To ease their nerves we took a job, just to say, we have got a job with so and so. To say, we are no doing this because we are incapable. We are capable enough to do this and that's why we are leaving our jobs. To follow our dreams."
The company's top end machines patrol a hundred and fifty kilometer radius, fly nonstop for ten hours and see both by day and by night. Not bad, for a bunch of IIT'ans barely in their thirties.
Eye in the sky: India's indigenous UAV makers - Tech News - IBNLive
But the 26-year-olds decided to grind their lucrative careers to a halt and fly into business. That of manufacturing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Raman Puri, founder, Aurora Integrated Systems said, "When we started the company in 2006, UAVs were coming up internationally and a lot of armed forces had started buying them. However, there was no one in India who was developing them. It was evident that India as a customer, would start proccuring these things soon."
Today, the Defense Research Development Organisation, the Council for Scientific and Industrial research, the Coast Guard and Delhi and Chennai Police forces are all important customers. But in the early days, convincing their families about this, was tough.
Founder of Aurora Integrated Systems Vineet Singh said, "To ease their nerves we took a job, just to say, we have got a job with so and so. To say, we are no doing this because we are incapable. We are capable enough to do this and that's why we are leaving our jobs. To follow our dreams."
The company's top end machines patrol a hundred and fifty kilometer radius, fly nonstop for ten hours and see both by day and by night. Not bad, for a bunch of IIT'ans barely in their thirties.
Eye in the sky: India's indigenous UAV makers - Tech News - IBNLive
