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INDUCED RAIN LEAVES A CLOUD OF QUESTIONS
The New Indian Express Coimbatore
|November 01, 2025
N a region where agriculture, commerce, and culture have been shaped by monsoon rains for millennia, artificially induced precipitation is bound to be seen as a spectacle just short of a miracle.
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So all eyes were on the national capital's first cloud-seeding experiment this Tuesday. With help from IIT Kanpur, the Delhi government used a light aircraft to seed clouds with chemical agents that stimulate moisture formation. A sum of ₹3.2 crore was allotted for five trials aimed at measuring whether the technology could effectively disperse airborne particles. When the underwhelming rainfall hardly made a dent in the hazardous brown dome hovering over Delhi, the sub-optimal moisture level was blamed. No further trial has since been announced after the first one comprising three sorties.
This story is from the November 01, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Coimbatore.
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