{"id":13663,"date":"2023-08-03T04:15:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13663"},"modified":"2025-04-02T06:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T00:43:36","slug":"jaldost-airboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jaldost-airboat\/","title":{"rendered":"JALDOST Airboat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About JALDOST<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an airboat that <strong>operates on water.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is designed to <strong>remove excess aquatic weed <\/strong>and floating waste from water bodies.<\/li>\n<li>It has a closed airtight <strong>pontoon type hull to make it inherently unsinkable<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>According to NAL, it has a hybrid propulsion system, comprising air propulsion and paddle wheel propulsion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How it works?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to travel through weed makes JALDOST an ideal platform to collect them and bring them to the shore.<\/li>\n<li>A steel <strong>mesh belt conveyor system fixed<\/strong> in the front collects the waste. The collected waste falls on the horizontal deck conveyor.<\/li>\n<li>After reaching the shore, the collected waste is unloaded by a rear conveyor system to trucks or tractors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>NAL has developed two versions of the airboat \u2014 JALDOST Mark-1 and an upgraded version JALDOST Mark-2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key facts about National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>constituent of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research<\/strong> (CSIR), India, established in the year 1959.<\/li>\n<li>It is the only government aerospace R&amp;D laboratory in the country&#8217;s civilian sector.<\/li>\n<li>CSIR-NAL is a <strong>high-technology-oriented institution<\/strong> focusing on advanced disciplines in aerospace.<\/li>\n<li>It has several advanced test facilities, and many of them are recognized as National Facilities.<\/li>\n<li>It has provided significant value-added inputs to all <strong>the Indian national aerospace programmes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has also developed many critical technologies for the strategic sector and continues to support the mission-mode programmes of the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandate:<\/strong> To develop <strong>aerospace technologies with strong science content<\/strong>, design and build small, medium-sized civil aircraft, and support all national aerospace programmes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Hydrophytes?<\/h3>\n<p>Hydrophytes are plants that are specially adapted to grow and thrive in water environments. The term &#8220;hydrophyte&#8221; comes from the Greek words &#8220;hydro,&#8221; meaning water, and &#8220;phyton,&#8221; meaning plant. These plants have evolved unique characteristics to survive and flourish in various aquatic habitats, such as freshwater and marine environments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/nal-unveils-jaldost-airboat-and-electric-uav-q-plane\/article67149505.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NAL unveils JALDOST airboat and electric UAV Q-Plane<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JALDOST airboat  is designed to remove excess aquatic weed and floating waste from water bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}