PARLIAMENT QUESTION: ASSESSMENT OF CLOUD SEEDING IN DELHI

• Cloud seeding is a weather-modification technique that introduces nucleating agents (e.g., silver iodide, NaCl) into clouds to induce precipitation; Delhi is piloting it as an emergency air-pollution mitigation measure.
• The pilot — "Technology Demonstration and Evaluation of Cloud Seeding as an Alternative for Delhi NCR Pollution Mitigation" — is run by Department of Environment, GNCTD with IIT Kanpur.
• Relevant to UPSC GS-III (Environment / S&T) and GS-II (Centre-State / urban governance) given air-quality crises in NCR.