New Delhi: Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Thursday announced that the city conducted its first-ever “successful” cloud seeding trials. A flight from IIT Kanpur took off on Thursday afternoon toward Delhi’s Burari, and injected a cloud with seeding chemicals to induce rain. However, this was only a physical ‘dry-run’ to test all mechanisms, and it did not lead to actual rainfall because there were minimal clouds.

“The Delhi government is now ready for cloud seeding in every way. We’ve gotten all the permissions, and we have done all trials too,” said Sirsa, in a video posted on X. “This is the first time in history we have conducted cloud seeding trials in Delhi.”

After the BJP-led Delhi government approved a Rs 3.21-crore outlay for cloud seeding trials in the Cap

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