Overview
- An official order issued on August 28 set up a six‑member Monitoring Committee and an eight‑member Technical Advisory and Evaluation Committee to supervise the cloud‑seeding programme.
- The plan has administrative approval for about Rs 28.52 crore and foresees roughly 200 hours of seeding work over a 60‑day window with daily flights from 8 am to 6 pm.
- Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Limited and the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre will run operations across the state’s four revenue divisions and will execute flights for the seeding work.
- The technical panel includes representatives from the India Meteorological Department, KSRSAC, Agriculture Department, IISc and IITM to provide scientific guidance and to evaluate outcomes.
- The government has contracted Kyathi Climate Modification Consultants LLP with an exemption from the state procurement rules and operations have not yet begun so the projected local rainfall effects remain untested.