Where am I saying they should not have drones at all?
Here: "Cargo drones are a non-starter. For any situation"
They have roads, they may have medical professionals, what they won't have is a stock of refrigerated medicine which would never survive the arduous road journey. (That will still apply when every village has a super new road in and out - the long winding journey by road will still take too long for remote high altitude settlements, a drone can cover the same distance in a fraction of the time)
Just because they are looking at 150kg drones as the upper limit does not mean it is also the lower limit, for most medicines a 5 or 10kg payload limit would be adequate.
As for cost, well who is going to pay the several trillion USD it would cost to put metalled roads to every community? - A handful of drones would cost nothing in comparison. One emergency helicopter trip would cost more than buying and supporting a drone for it's expected lifespan of a few years.
You continue to overlook the scale of India, it has a land area more than 12 times that of GB and vertically it goes from below sea level to altitudes that make Mount Snowdon look like an anthill. Upgrading millions of tracks and dirt roads to fully metalled roads is a ludicrous proposition without unlimited funds and unlimited time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
