A week after a dry-run flight proved successful, Delhi—like every year battling post-Diwali unbreathable air—is set to try its first full-scale cloud-seeding operation by October-end. Officials are describing it as the national capital’s biggest breakthrough in a decade-long quest for artificial rain to combat smog. And when it happens, it will be India’s first artificial rain effort against what is now a nationwide emergency—rising air pollution.
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A modified Cessna-206H aircraft, owned by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, will navigate its way into moisture-laden clouds, where salt-based and silver iodide flares will be released to induce rainfall over the northern limits of Delhi.
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