India, Oct. 30 -- A day after unsuccessful cloud seeding attempts in the national Capital, the trial scheduled for Wednesday was put on hold, after reports of insufficient moisture in clouds. Meanwhile, a political slugfest erupted between the ruling BJP and the AAP over the issue.
Manindra Agrawal, director at IIT-Kanpur, which executed the trails, said they gathered key insights from the activity even though they did not achieve success in
ensuring rainfall. "It (moisture content) was only around 15 per cent. With that low moisture content, the possibility of making rain is very low. We did not achieve success from that perspective, but we got a lot of useful information. We set up 15 stations at various locations to measure air polluti...