{"id":276936,"date":"2019-05-31T07:08:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276936"},"modified":"2019-05-31T07:08:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:08:49","slug":"hal-and-iit-k-offer-cloud-seeding-technology-at-low-cost-to-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hal-and-iit-k-offer-cloud-seeding-technology-at-low-cost-to-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"HAL and IIT-K offer cloud seeding technology at low cost to Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: While the state cabinet has already approved cloud-seeding project of Rs 91 crore, with Kyathi Climate Modification Consultants bagging the contract, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) have jointly written to Karnataka government offering their low-cost technology for cloud seeding.<\/p>\n<p>While the estimated cost has not yet been worked out for the HAL-IIT-K proposal, state government officials expect it will be much less than the already approved contract.\u201cWhile HAL did not participate in the tendering process, they along with IIT-K can present the technology to us. It is good to have our own technology, as this also reduces cost of the project with no import expenses,\u201d said H S Prakash Kumar, Chief Engineer, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Department, while speaking on the sidelines of the first International Conference on Cloud Seeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: While the state cabinet has already approved cloud-seeding project of Rs 91 crore, with Kyathi Climate Modification Consultants bagging the contract, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) have jointly written to Karnataka government offering their low-cost technology for cloud seeding. While the estimated cost has not yet been worked out for the HAL-IIT-K proposal, state government officials expect it will be much less than the already approved contract.\u201cWhile HAL did not participate in the tendering process, they along with IIT-K can present the technology to us. It is good to have our own technology, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}