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A time aft 2 cloud-seeding trials failed to induce artificial rainfall successful the city, the Delhi authorities connected Wednesday cancelled 2 trials scheduled for the time citing insufficient moisture contented successful the clouds.
The determination led to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) questioning the project’s feasibility fixed the Capital’s existent “unfavourable” climatic conditions. The government, however, claimed it was “successful” successful conducting the trials.
Manindra Agrawal, Director, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, which is collaborating with the Delhi authorities to behaviour the trials, said though Tuesday’s trials failed to induce rain, they were adjuvant successful collecting information for the project.
Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa claimed Tuesday’s trials were “successful and historic”. “We person reached a signifier wherever we could behaviour a trial. We volition larn what moisture contented is needed to induce rain. It is inactive successful proceedings mode. Once IIT Kanpur has accusation connected the close moisture content, we volition beryllium capable to usage it to induce artificial rainfall successful Delhi erstwhile needed,” helium said.
The Minister said the authorities volition behaviour much trials successful the coming days. He said the erstwhile AAP authorities was incapable to adjacent behaviour trials portion the BJP authorities achieved a “milestone” by conducting them.
‘Conditions unfeasible’
However, AAP Delhi main Saurabh Bharadwaj said the authorities is “ignoring” a study from the Central authorities that recovered unreality seeding to beryllium “unfeasible” successful the Capital.
“When the BJP-led Central authorities itself said artificial rainfall isn’t feasible, who is the Delhi authorities trying to fool? The chemicals utilized [in the trials] tin marque Delhiites sick,” helium alleged.
Ministry’s statement
Replying to a query successful the Rajya Sabha successful December 2024, the Union Environment Ministry had stated that unreality seeding successful the nationalist superior would beryllium hard during winter, citing adept opinions.
“Effective unreality seeding requires circumstantial unreality conditions, which are mostly absent during Delhi’s acold and adust wintertime months... additionally, concerns astir the uncertainties, efficacy, and imaginable adverse effects of cloud-seeding chemicals remain,” the Ministry said, quoting an expert.
When AAP was successful powerfulness successful Delhi, it besides sought support to behaviour cloud-seeding trials and petitioned the Centre aggregate times, but failed to unafraid the indispensable clearances.
