In a first, the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) has started working on the development of scent pads for training military dogs to detect explosives or narcotics.
A proposal regarding this was sent by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), as per which, the DRDO would conduct a pioneering R&D to manufacture K9 Target Odour Scent Pads. As of now such pads are imported from abroad at an extremely high cost, for canine training.
Once developed by the DRDO, the scent pads would be used in the training of dogs for explosive or narcotics detection. At present, the dog training institutions have been training the dogs on live material.
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Source: MSN News