The Delhi government carried out two cloud seeding trials on Tuesday to try and bring artificial rain to the city in order to fight rising pollution levels . The tests were carried out using a Cessna plane fitted with salt-based and silver iodide flares, meant to encourage rainfall. But by Tuesday evening, both flights from Kanpur and Meerut had failed to produce any rainfall.

The attempts were “not completely successful” because the flares released from the aircraft didn’t result in any rain. “We did two sorties, one in the afternoon and one slightly later in the evening. A total of, I believe, 14 flares were fired. These were fired and the aircraft returned to Meerut. There hasn’t been any rains so far. So, in that sense, it is not completely successful,” Manindra Agrawal, D

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