Every year, Delhi deals with smog in the winter season. A mix of factors make Delhi AQI shoot to sky. The culprits remain  the same — vehicular pollution, construction dust, stubble burning, industrial smoke choke the city, the smog hangs due to heavy air — but the remedy differs every year — from water sprinklers to odd-even days for cars to anti-smog guns and giant air purifiers – but nothing seems to work. The reason is not difficult to comprehend. The cosmetic efforts cannot bring about a lasting change. This year is no different. But this  time remedy was indeed bizarre — cloud seeding — and it ended up in a fiasco.  The much-hyped cloud-seeding experiment conducted  by the Delhi Government in collaboration with IIT Kanpur — at a cost of over Rs 3 crore — yielded not a single........

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