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Project Varshadhari
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Clean Ganga Project
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Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
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Smart Cities Project
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Detailed explanation-1: -A committee, comprising meteorologists, experts in cloud physics and hydrologists, will monitor the process.
Detailed explanation-2: -In India, cloud seeding operations were conducted during the years 1983, 1984–87, 1993-94 by Tamil Nadu Govt due to severe drought. In the years 2003 and 2004 Karnataka government initiated cloud seeding. Cloud seeding operations were also conducted in the same year through US-based Weather Modification Inc.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cloud seeding is a weather modification technique that improves a cloud’s ability to produce rain or snow by introducing tiny ice nuclei into certain types of subfreezing clouds. These nuclei provide a base for snowflakes to form.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1946, Schaefer conducted the first true cloud seeding experiment by aircraft. He dropped 6 pounds of crushed dry ice into a cloud in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Almost immediately, snow began to fall.
Detailed explanation-5: -Cloud seeding as we know it today got its start in 1946 when Dr. Vincent J. Schaefer, working at the General Electric Laboratory in New York, was involved with research to create artificial clouds in a chilled chamber.