The Delhi government is prepared to cover all costs in its effort to tackle air pollution by creating artificial rain

Officials said that the Delhi government has chosen to pay for “artificial rain” in its entirety in an effort to reduce air pollution in the capital due to the declining quality of the city’s air.

In addition, the Delhi administration has instructed Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar to address the Supreme Court on Friday with the government’s position.

“The Secretary has been instructed to draft a plan in consultation with IIT Kanpur and submit it in the form of an affidavit before the Supreme Court prior to tomorrow’s hearing. According to a statement from Gopal Rai’s office, the Delhi government is willing to pay the Rs 13 crore required for the two-phase pilot project.

In order to complete the first part of the pilot project prior to the “artificial rain” on November 20–21, the Environment Minister has also instructed the Chief Secretary to get the required clearances from the Center and UP government by November 15.

On Thursday, however, Delhi’s total air quality remained in the “severe” category.

Gopal Rai said on Thursday that all Delhi ministries would collaborate to guarantee the execution of air pollution control measures in order to reduce the current state of pollution.

Implementation is a major difficulty, thus today’s combined meeting of all Delhi’s ministers included talks on how to activate the departments. The administrative slackness has drawn the ire of the Cabinet. Following a review meeting on Thursday, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said, “The ministers will be working at the ground level in different districts.”

The districts that Gopal Rai oversees are the North and North East, Kailash Gahlot oversees the South West and West, Atishi oversees the East and South East, Saurabh Bhardwaj oversees the South and New Delhi, Imran Hussain oversees the Central and Shahdara, and Rajkumar Anand oversees the North West district.

According to Rai, the ministers in charge of pollution management in each district will be providing instructions to the authorities in charge and will also be visiting the area to conduct inspections.

“This minister will visit the site personally in addition to issuing directives to the authorities involved in pollution responsibility. These trips will focus mostly on Delhi’s borders, and they will also include checks to building sites since, despite the fact that work has halted in many areas, dust control regulations have not been put into place. Inspections by officials have also been mandated,” he stated.

The day after tomorrow is predicted to be cloudy, although it’s hard to predict whether it will rain or not. Our goal in this kind of circumstance is to enforce the regulations,” the Environment Minister of Delhi said.

The national capital is now using Stage IV of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) after the city’s air quality fell into the “severe plus” category.