The decision of the Chief Minister Rekha Gupta-led BJP government to conduct cloud-seeding seems to have backfired with the national capital receiving no rain, and IIT Kanpur cancelling the third round of the process on Wednesday. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now posed tough questions, blaming the saffron party for wasting taxpayers’ money. The BJP, on the other hand, maintains it succeeded in cloud seeding.

In an official statement, IIT Kanpur, said the result is highly dependent on the right atmospheric conditions. “While rainfall could not be triggered yesterday because moisture levels were around 15 to 20 per cent, the trial delivered valuable insights,” the institute said. It added that the monitoring stations set up across Delhi did capture real-time changes in particulate matter a

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