Bangalore: Whenever rain Gods decline to smile on Karnataka, state governments in the past have come out with a standard prescription --- cloud seeding.
But such attempts to revive the slack monsoon by scientific methods have not met with much success.
The Sadananda Gowda government, however, is not deterred by these failed experiments as it plans to make another attempt to induce rain, if in case the state does not receive rains in the next fortnight.
The government is simply wasting its money and time on cloud seeding as it had its own share of limitations and flaws. Instead it should take up large-scale relief measures to bail out the farmers suffering due to drought and monsoon failure,aa said Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) President K S Puttannaiah.
According to officials, while the experiments then cost the exchequer about 10-15 crore spent in 2004, the program will now cost Rs 30-40 crore as it will includes hiring of three aircraft, installation of three radars for monitoring and identifying rain-bearing clouds.
15/06/12 Manu Aiyappa/Times of India
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