State Begins Artificial Rain Project

For the small pockets of land in Maharashtra that received very modest rainfall on Saturday and Sunday, its was a manmade gift of showers.

Four very small pockets of land in Satara (Wadunj) and rural regions of Pune districat (Daund, Baramati and Marinagar) received from a maximum of 11 millimetres (mm) of rainfall for 31 minutes on a 12 square kilometre tract of arid land to an almost abysmal 6.5 mm of rainfall for even lesser time.

Why the jubiliation then? Because these regions fall within 10 most scarcity-hit districts of Maharashtra with no rains for the last three years.

 

The state government has imported the requisite radar machines and other equipment at a cost of Rs 5.5 crore and hopes to continue creating artificial