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The Congress connected Sunday (November 2, 2025) took a swipe astatine the Delhi authorities implicit its unreality seeding experimentation for improving aerial prime and said getting flimsy betterment successful a constricted country for a time oregon 2 arsenic is present being claimed is simply a "cruel joke".
Congress wide caput in-charge (communications) Jairam Ramesh said the Delhi authorities has spent ₹34 crore connected the wintertime unreality seeding experimentation successful bid to amended aerial quality.
On December 5, 2024, the Union Minister of State of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change, had answered a question successful the Rajya Sabha saying that 3 specialised agencies, the Commission for Air Quality Management successful NCT, the Central Pollution Control Board, and the Indian Meteorological Department, had intelligibly advised against wintertime unreality seeding to amended aerial prime successful Delhi, Mr. Ramesh said.
Then connected October 31, 2025 --- that is conscionable the time earlier yesterday -- the well-known and prestigious Centre for Atmospheric Sciences astatine IIT Delhi issued a elaborate study connected the taxable which makes it wide that wintertime unreality seeding volition not assistance amended the atrocious aerial prime successful Delhi successful immoderate important manner, helium said.
Winter unreality seeding surely looks precise melodramatic and gives the content that thing is demonstrably being done by the government, helium said.
"But erstwhile the overwhelming technological statement raises truthful galore doubts and superior questions connected its efficacy, is it omniscient to laic truthful overmuch store by it but arsenic a headline-grabbing measure? the Congress person said.
"Getting 'slight betterment successful a constricted country for a time oregon two' arsenic is present being claimed is truly a cruel joke," Mr. Ramesh said.
He besides shared connected X the Environment Minister's reply successful the Rajya Sabha and the IIT Delhi report. Mr. Ramesh's remarks travel 2 days aft Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said science-driven enactment and enforcement are delivering results arsenic the city's AQI showed a important diminution and rubbished allegations of information tampering.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had besides said that contamination information cannot beryllium manipulated oregon tampered with.
The Opposition has repeatedly criticised the government's unreality seeding trials and has accused the BJP authorities successful Delhi of manipulating the AQI information to conceal the grim situation.
