In the end using coal is probably a super bad idea. Hopefully other methods come online soon.
Yes, we can build buildings almost 1km high, but that's not practical for every smoke stack in the city.
A jet engine is a much cheaper and quicker to deploy option, assuming it actually works.
Maybe hot air just rises anyway. Maybe kinetic influence matters less than boosting the thermal energy?
But inversion layers change with the weather, so even if this works once, it may not work every time. And a band-aid that fixes this now, may only encourage more runaway growth covered up by more band-aids.
Wouldn't want to actually change technologies though. Just blunder along and cobble together dust busters and blow torches and continue with business as usual.
I suppose I'd only expect roughly the same from my own town supervisor...
Unfortunately, like many tech band-aids, once the pain goes away the problem is ignored until it flares up again.
The only use of coal is for electricity in the power plants already there. Coal makes the majority of the fuels used to power India.