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ISSUE NO.

 9    APRIL 2019

Contents
and Govt. of Nepal with respect  Project with the World Bank
to cooperation in water sector. support. In this regard, the first
I had the opportunity to lead Consultation Meeting on DRIP
the Indian Side during the 3rd Phase-2 and Phase-3 was
A Roundtable of States: Interstate meeting of Team of Experts organized on 18th March, 2019
(ToE) for Pancheshwar at New Delhi.
River Water Governance Multipurpose Project held in
 Kathmandu, Nepal during CWC is setting up coastal data
35th JET meeting between RGoB 27.2.19-28.2.19. During the collection sites in various
meeting, several outstanding maritime States in collaboration
issues were resolved. Efforts with respective State Govts. and
and Govt of India are now being undertaken to expert institutions engaged in
take up the balance this area. In this regard, two tri-
Important Cabinet Decisions S. Masood Husain, outstanding issues. The 35th partite MoUs were signed
during March, 2019 for State of
Chairman, CWC JET (Joint Expert Team)
Visit to Hydroelectric projects, meeting between RGoB and Goa and Maharashtra (southern
Message Govt. of India was held in coast) respectively. In these tri-
Uttarakhand Important cabinet decisions Bhutan to oversee and review partite MoUs, CWC will be
were taken during the month as the comprehensive scheme for Project Implementer, National
far as the water sector is Institute of Oceanography(NIO),
Tripartite MoU-CMIS concerned. Firstly, the large
establishment of HO&FF 
Goa will be Project Executer and
network on common rivers.
hydropower projects (installed respective State Govts. will be
Reference Manual for Coastal capacity more than 25 MW) Centre for Policy Research Project Facilitator.
were declared as one of (CPR), an independent and
Protection and Management renewable energy sources. This premier public policy research CWC Headquarter and its field
step is going to provide think tank in association with offices participated actively in
Swachhata Pakhwada-2019 necessary boost to the sector CWC, hosted the “Roundtable Swachhta Pakhwada during 16-
and hopefully contribute of States” on March 6, 2019 at 31st March, 2019. The activities
World Water Day- 2019 towards better utilization of CWC Headquarters. Various included cleaning of nearby
hydropower potential available issues and challenges of areas and water bodies,
in the country.  In addition to interstate river water plantation drive, organizing
DRIP Phase II and Phase III above, the Flood Management governance in the country competition for school children.
and Border Areas Programme were discussed during the These activities also brought out
Reservoir Monitoring (FMBAP) scheme was approved event which was participated imaginative thinking and
for the period 2017-18 to 2019- by more than sixty participants perspectives of our younger
Important Links 20 with a total outlay of from various State and Central generation with respect to
Rs.3342.00 crore. CWC is Govt. organizations. cleanliness and water
Water Sector in News involved in overseeing and conservation. CWC also
monitoring of various Considering the success and observed the World Water Day
components of this important achievement of on 22nd March 2019. Some
Jalyukt Shivar scheme of Govt. of India. Dam Rehabilitation and moments from above
Improvement Project(DRIP), the activities have been captured in
Appreciation Important meetings were held Government of India has subsequent sections of the
with representatives of Royal initiated the next phases of the  newsletter.
History- Bhakra Dam Government of Bhutan (RGoB) 

अंधम बलम जलम च आ ह णे वयम वकासनव


"Blind is the force of water and fire which has to be guided with discrimination.."
-Mahabharata

Sh. Alok Rawat, former Member of National Commission for Women and Sh. R.K. Sinha, Member(RM), CWC and other officers of CWC-HQ, New Delhi
former Secretary, MoWR delivered a talk on "Women Empowerment in male interacting with Officers of TBO, CWC, Kolkata through Video Conferencing
dominated society" on 7.3.19 at CWC, HQ, New Delhi 13.1.19

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   CWC Newsletter-April 2019

A Roundtable of States: Interstate River Water Governance

Sh. S. Masood Husain, Chairman, CWC, Sh. U. P. Singh, Secretary, MoWR, RD&GR, Sh. A. B. Pandya,
Secretary General, ICID and Dr. Srinivas Chokkakula, MoWR Research Chair, CPR during the Participants during Roundtable of States
Roundtable of States
Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi in association with MoWR, National Institute of Hydrology (NIH). Representatives from river
RD&GR and CWC, GoI, organized a “Roundtable of States” on 6.3.19 at the boards in the country such as the Bhakra-Beas Management Board,
CWC Headquarters, New Delhi to discuss the challenges of interstate river Upper Yamuna River Board, Godavari River Management Board.
water governance in the country.
During first session, Sh. U.P. Singh, Secretary, MoWR, RD&GR,
The roundtable contemplated over the major issues linked to interstate mentioned that there is immediate need for bringing the change in
rivers water governance. The full day roundtable deliberations comprised discourse and policy thinking. He emphasized on enabling cooperation
of two consultation sessions- arrangements among the States at the time of conflict. He also
suggested that the Research Chair established by MoWR to look into
First session was chaired and moderated by Sh. U.P. Singh, Secretary, all such cooperation instances.
MoWR, RD&GR and session brainstormed a research agenda which was
presented by Dr. Srinivas Chokkakula, the MoWR Research Chair. Second During second session, focus was given on identifying the precise
session was chaired and moderated by Sh. S. Masood Husain, Chairman, challenges of interstate coordination, so that the policy making can
CWC. consider them. Chairman, CWC echoed the necessary shift stressed by
the Secretary towards enabling an ecosystem for interstate
The roundtable has been organized as part of an inception process of the cooperation and informed that CWC, with the benefit of the MoWR
recently established “MoWR Research Chair- Water Conflicts and Research Chair in place, will continue to engage with States on this
Governance” at CPR. The Ministry and the CWC wanted the States to set matter.
the agenda and contribute to it by bringing in States’ perspectives to the
table. 60 plus participants included Principal Secretaries of Water The participants felt that it was an important initiative by the MoWR,
Resources Departments of States/UTs, Chief Engineers of state Water RD&GR to engage with States/UTs on these crucial issues of federal
Resources departments, and representatives from Central agencies such governance. Secretary, MoWR, RD&GR and Chairman, CWC expressed
as the National Water Development Agency (NWDA), National Mission for their deep satisfaction with the enthusiastic participation of
Clean Ganga (NMCG), Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), States/UTs and hoped to continue with similar interactions .

35th JET (Joint Expert Team) meeting between RGoB and Govt of India
The 35th JET (Joint Expert Team) meeting between RGoB and Govt of
India was held during 6.3.19-7.3.19 at Paro, Bhutan. The JET was
constituted to oversee and review the progress under the
comprehensive scheme for establishment of Hydro- meteorological
Observation & Flood Forecasting network on rivers originating from
Bhutan and flowing through India.

GoI delegation was led by Sh. P M Scott, CE, B&BBO, CWC, Shillong &
Team Leader, Indian Side, JET. Other members of the delegation included
Sh. Vaseem Ashraf, SJC, B&B, MoWR, RD&GR, Sh. S.L Meena, Director
(Fin), MoWR, RD&GR, Sh. Ravi Ranjan, SE, HOC, CWC, Guwahati and Sh.
Sudipta Sarkar, EE, BID, CWC, Bhutan. RGoB delegation was led by Sh.
Karma Dupchu, Director, National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology
(NCHM).

During the 35th JET meeting, the progress of Flood Warning Program of
GoI implemented through NCHM, RGoB was reviewed and several  to India and Bhutan is also in operationfor transmission of real time
decisions taken. data to control rooms in India since the year 1955. The cost of operation
and maintenance of these sites in Bhutan is borne by India. Officers
A comprehensive scheme for establishment of Hydro-Meteorological from both the sides meet twice a year alternatively in India and Bhutan
and Flood Forecasting Network on rivers common to oversee its implementation

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Important Cabinet Decisions


Flood Management and Border Areas Programme
Cabinet has approved the "Flood Management and Border Areas Aims of FMBAP are :-
Programme (FMBAP)" for Flood Management Works in entire country and To assist the State Governments to provide reasonable degree of
River Management Activities and works related to Border Areas for the protection against floods in critical areas by adopting optimum
period 2017-18 to 2019-20 with a total outlay of Rs.3342.00 crore. combination of structural and non-structural measures and
"FMBAP" has been framed by merging the components of two continuing enhancing capabilities of State/ Central Government officials in
XII Plan schemes titled "Flood Management Programme (FMP)" and related fields.
"River Management Activities and Works related to Border Areas It will protect valuable land from erosion and flooding and help in
(RMBA)". maintaining peace along border.
The Scheme will caters to Hydro-meteorological observations and
The Flood Management component of the scheme has beneficiaries Flood Forecasting on common rivers entering India from the
across the country who are affected by floods. The RMBA component is neighbouring countries.
specific to activities in border areas with neighbouring countries such as It will conduct survey and investigations, preparation of DPR etc.
Bangladesh, Nepal, China, Pakistan and Bhutan. of water resources projects on the common border rivers.

The proposal will benefit towns, villages, industrial establishments, Monitoring of the Flood Management Programme would be
communication links, agricultural fields, infrastructure etc. from floods conducted by Central Water Commission (CWC), Ganga Flood Control
and erosion in the country. The catchment area treatment works will help Commission (GFCC) and Brahmaputra Board (BB) in their respective
in reduction of sediment load into rivers. The works under the scheme will jurisdiction. RMBA component will be monitored by Central Water
protect valuable land from erosion and flooding and help in maintaining Commission & Ganga Flood Control Commission.
peace along the border.
Measures to promote Hydro Power Sector
India is endowed with large hydropower potential of 1,45,320 MW of As on 2018, Projects having capacity of 10973 MW were under
which only about 45,400 MW has been utilized so far. Only about 10,000 construction and capacity of 93732 MW are yet to be taken up to
MW of hydropower has been added in the last 10 years. The hydropower realize the full potential.
sector is currently going through a challenging phase and the share of
hydropower in the total capacity has declined from 50.36% in the 1960s Government has also accepted to consider budgetary support for
to around 13% in 2018-19.  funding flood moderation component of hydropower projects on case
to case basis.As most of the hydro power potential is located in the
Now, Government has decided that Large Hydropower Projects to be higher reaches of Himalayas and North- East Region, it will result in
declared as Renewable  Energy source (previously  only hydropower overall socio-economic development of the region by providing direct
projects less than 25MW are categorized as Renewable Energy. employment in the power sector.
Teesta Stage-VI HE Project, Sikkim
NHPC Ltd got investment sanction for acquisition of M/s Lanco Teesta Race Tunnels of 9.8 m dia with 13.76 km length; an underground
Hydro Power Ltd (LTHPL) and execution of balance work of the Teesta Power House having 4 no Units of 125 MW each. The project would
Stage-Vl HE Project in Sikkim. It consists of construction of a 26.5 m generate 2400 MUs in a 90% dependable year with Installed Capacity
high Barrage across river Teesta; Two nos Horse Shoe shape Head of 500 MW (4x125MW)

Visit to Hydroelectric projects, Uttarakhand


Sh. T.K. Sivarajan, CE, Designs(E&NE), CWC and Sh. P.K. Shukla, CE Proposed
Project Name River Project Proponent Annual Generation
(HPM), CEA, being a part of Committee constituted by MoWR, RD&GR
conducted spot assessment and assessed the physical progress of KOTLIBHEL 1A Bhagirathi NHPC 1025.50 MU
three Hydroelectric projects in Uttarakhand, namely, Kotlibhel 1A (195
KOTLIBHEL 1B Alaknanda NHPC 1278.30 MU
MW), Kotlibhel IB (320MW) and Lata Tapovan (171MW). The
Committee carried out the site visits and on the spot assessment LATA TAPOVAN Dhauliganga NTPC 868 MU
during 24.3.19-26.3.19.

Committee visiting Lata Tapovan HEP, Uttarakhand Committee visiting Kotlibhel 1A& 1B HEPs, Uttarakhand

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Coastal Management Information System-CMIS

Fourth meeting of the Project Monitoring Committee (PMC) for the


Department of Ocean Engineering at IITM, Chennai organized the implementation of Coastal Management Information System
Second National Workshop on Coastal Management Information (CMIS) held at IITM,Chennai on 12.3.19. The meeting was chaired
System (NWCMIS – 2019) with support of CWC on 11.3.19. by Sh. N.M.Krishnanunni., Chief Engineer, CSRO, CWC, Coimbatore

Tripartitite MoU for CMIS among CWC, NIO and Govt. of Goa and Maharashtra
A Tripartite MoU for implementation of CMIS in Maharashtra (Southern
Coast) was signed among CWC as Project Implementer, National
Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa as Project Executer and Govt. of
Maharashtra as Project Facilitator at Goa on 26.3.2019. Another
Tripartite MoU for implementation of CMIS in Goa was signed among
CWC as Project Implementer, NIO, Goa as Project Executer and Govt. of
Goa as Project Facilitator at Goa on 27.3.2019.Similar MoUs have
already been entered with other agencies and States/UTs. These are
summarized as below.

Signing of Tripartite MoU among CWC, NIO, Goa and Govt. of Goa on
27.3.2019 at NIO, Goa

Reference Manual for Coastal Protection and Management


Climate change is a
major factor that affects
economic sectors
existing in the coastal
zones.  To address such
issues , a scientifically
well-founded reference
manual for climate
resilient coastal
protection and
management in India
has been prepared
under ADB-GEF( Global
Environment Facility). Sh. Rajesh Yadav, Sr. Project Officer, ADB, Sh. J.C. Iyer, Commissioner
(FM), MoWR, RD&GR, Sh. B.K. Karjee, CE (FM), CWC, Sh. N.K. Mathur,
The same was released Member, D&R, CWC, Sh. U.P. Singh, Secretary, MoWR, RD&GR, Sh.
by Sh. U. P. Singh, Arnaud Cauchois, Principal Water Resources Specialist, ADB and Dr.
Secretary M. Baba, Project Consultant & Former Director, CESS, Kerala
(MoWR,RD&GR) in the
The reference manual includes guidance for design and planning of
presence of officers of
schemes, overview of physical coastal processes, evaluation of various
ADB, CWC , Ministry
protection measures, involvement of community role, and role of
during an event in New
agencies working for coastal management. These guidelines will provide
Delhi on 26.3.19.
holistic approach for overall protection of Indian coastline.

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CWC Newsletter-April 2019

DRIP -Phase II and Phase III


Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) is one of the flagship
projects of the MoWR, RD&GR, GoI and the World Bank. The Objective of the
Project is to improve the dam safety and operational performance of selected
dams of the Country, with emphasis on institutional strengthening with system
wide management improvement along with sustainable operation and
maintenance. Considering the success and achievement of DRIP, the
Government of India has initiated the next Phases of the Project with the World
Bank Support

18 States and two Central Organisations are proposed to be included to be a


part of DRIP Phase-II and Phase-III. The Project is to be financed by World Bank; Smt. T Rajeshwari, Addl. Secretary (MoWR, RD&GR), Sh. Juanil Kamal Ahmed,
Country Director, World Bank, India Office, Sh. U.P. Singh, Secretary (MoWR,
participating States and Central Govt. The overall implementation as well as
RD&GR) and Sh. S. Masood Husain, Chairman, CWC during First Consultation
supervision of the Project would be coordinated and supervised by the Central Meeting on DRIP Phase II and Phase III on 18.3.19 in New Delhi
Water Commission through a Central Project Management Unit (CPMU). Day-to-
day project coordination and management at the State level is to be done by
State Project Management Units. The firts consultation meeting for the same
has been held on 18.3.19 for kickstarting the preparation of phase of the project
likely to start in June 2020 wherein lessons learnt in DRIP and road map to
Phase II and Phase III were discussed.

The Project is to be implemented over a period of 10 years, in two phases, with


each phase of 6 years duration and an overlap of 2 years over each other.
Project Cost Implementing States

World Bank Rs. 7000 Crore Andhra Pradesh Manipur


Bihar Meghalaya
States Rs. 2800 Crore Chhattisgarh Odisha
Goa Punjab
Central Agencies Rs. 400 Crore
Gujarat Rajasthan
Karnataka Tamil Nadu
Components of Project Kerala Telangana
Rehabilitation and Improvement of Madhya Pradesh Uttar Pradesh
Dams and Associated Appurtenances Maharashtra West Bengal
Dam Safety Institutional Strengthening
Central Implementing Agencies
Incidental Revenue Generation for
sustainable operation and Central Water Commission (CWC)
maintenance of dams Bhakra Beas Management Board
Project Management (BBMB)

Smart India Hackathon(SIH)- 2019


Smart India Hackathon is an initiative that provides students a platform to resolve
the day to day issues with innovative and problem solving mindset. SIH-2019 was
organized by MHRD, AICTE in association with other organisations. For the event
MoWR,RD&GR sent 5 problems in which 2 were from CWC. The problem
statement sent by CWC are-  
1-Collection of real time data of inundated areas during floods
CWC in collaboration with Google is in the process of development of inundation
maps to provide improved flood forecast. There is need to develop a mobile
application for crowd sourcing of real time data from the public residing in flood
affected areas. The crowd source data with images, geo-locations and time-
stamps can be used for ground truthing of inundation maps.
2-Collection and reporting of data in respect of waste water from the canals and CWC Officer with the SIH-2019 Participants
other water retaining structures. There are thousands of kilometers canal
structures and breaches/malfunctioning/misuse is observed at many places.
Mobile application for reporting of such instances, should be able to take about 5
to l0 images and /or video and upload it to the web with geo-location and time
stamp. The information in the form of notification/alert may go to the concerned
district level administrative officer who in turn can forward the same to the
concerned engineering department and keep a track of it.
Team of students from different part of India assembled to solve the problems
of MoWR,RD&GR at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering , Chennai
during grand finale of SIH-2019 on 2-3 March, 2019. Sh. B. B. Saikiya, Director,
CWC and Sh. Mohd. Faiz Syed , DD, CWC were nominated as judge/evaluator Two CWC Officers (R-L) during Grand Finale Event
from CWC for the event.

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CWC Newsletter-April 2019

World Water Day- 2019

School students participated in different competitions on World


Water Day 2019 celebration at CWC, Coimbatore offices
World Water Day celebration at CWC HQ, New Delhi

Painting made by school student on the ocassion of World


Water Day World Water Day celebration at UGBO, Lucknow
World Water Day is observed annually on 22 March as a means of ‘Leaving no one behind', which is the central promise of the 2030
focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating Agenda for Sustainable Development: as sustainable development
for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. An progresses, everyone must benefit.
international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development World Water Day celebration was observed at CWC HQ and other regional
(UNCED) in 1992 and 22 March was designated a World Water Day in offices of CWC. During celebration, technical sessions , different
1993. World Water Day-2019 was celebrated with the theme   competitions were organized for schools like quiz, painting etc.

Joint Team of Experts/Officials for Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project


After submission of draft final DPR by WAPCOS during November –
December 2016, a total of 575 issues were identified by Govt. of India,
Govt. of Nepal and PDA. In order to resolve these issues to enable
finalization of the DPR, a Team of Experts was formed by both the
Governments in May 2017.
The 3rd meeting of Team of Experts/Officials (ToE/O) for Pancheshwar
Multipurpose Project was held at Kathmandu, Nepal during 27.2.19-
28.2.19. The meeting was held in a cordial atmosphere. The Indian
delegation was led by Sh. S. Masood Husain, Chairman, CWC while the
Nepalese team was led by Sh. Devendra Karki, Secretary, Water and
Energy Commission, Nepal.  The pending issues were taken up by different
sub-groups formed during the meeting and 32 were resolved. Efforts are
now being undertaken to next ToE meeting to take up the balance 128
Team leaders Signing the Minutes of the third meeting of  Joint Team of
outstanding issues. Experts on 1.3.19 at Kathmandu

Reservoir Monitoring
CWC is monitoring live storage status of 91 reservoirs around the
country on a weekly basis and is issuing a bulletin every Thursday.
The total live storage capacity of these 91 reservoirs is 161.993 BCM,
which is about 63% of the live storage capacity of 257.812 BCM
which is estimated to have been created in the country.

As per the reservoir storage bulletin dated 28.3.19, the live storage
available in these reservoirs is 50.307 BCM, which is 31% of the total
live storage capacity of these reservoirs. This is 110% of the live
storage of the corresponding period during last year, and 101% of the
average storage over the last ten years.

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CWC Newsletter-April 2019

Gallery-Swachhata Pakhwada-2019

Rallies for mass awareness Colours Portraying "Clean India" by School Children


Swachhta Pakhwada began in April 2016 with the objective of bringing a Rallies were organized for creating awareness about cleanliness in
fortnight of intense focus on the issues and practices of Swachhta by engaging various cities including Bhubaneswar, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore etc.
GoI Ministries/Departments under the Swachh Bharat Mission. This year, CWC officials undertook plantation activity during this period in the
Swachhata Pakhwada was observed in all the offices of CWC all over India office premises such New Library Building, New Delhi, Regional offices
during 16.3.19-31.3.19. etc.

During the event, various activities were organized by CWC HQ and field offices
like cleaning of nearby places ,different water bodies, river ghats. Cleaning For generating awareness among the school students, CWC offices all
activities were performed at Ram Ghat, New Delhi ,Punpun Ghat ,Patna, over the country organized mass awareness activities like quiz
Narasipura water tank, Bangalore and at many more places across India. competitions, painting competitions and pledge taking ceremonies.

Cleaning activities of nearby places and Water Bodies

Painting and Quiz competitions in schools Plantation activities at different CWC Offices

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CWC Newsletter-April 2019

Water Sector in News Appreciation


TERI signs MoU with WAPCOS on power, water and infra (The
Economic Times, 6.3.19)
Maharashtra dams have only 33% water stock left (Financial
Express, Delhi, 7.3.19)
Govt. okays NHPC plan to buy Lanco’s Teesta hydro project for Rs.
907 crore (Financial Express, 8.3.19)
Flows of funds for river Ganga (Mail Today, Delhi, 10.3.19)
India puts off Pak visit for Indus basin inspection (The Times of
India, New Delhi, 11.3.19)
Rivers are critical for groundwater recharge (Hindustan Times,
12.3.19)
3 panels to look after dam safety (The New Indian Express, 13.3.19)
Telangana’s new bid to stall Polavaram (The Hindu, New Delhi,
19.3.19)
Uttarakhand shelves hydropower plans on eco-sensitive Bhagirathi CWC got "BEST STALL" Award at Women Empowerment Exhibition, Shimla
(DNA, 22.3.19) 2019 held during 12.3.19- 14.3.19 at Shimla

Initiatives by States-Jalyukt Shivar Important Links


Maharashtra government launched the project "Jalyukt Shivar
Beneath the Surface: The State of the World’s Water 2019
Abhiyaan" in a bid to make Maharashtra a drought-free state by
https://washmatters.wateraid.org/sites/g/files/jkxoof256/files/be
2019. Every year 5000 villages have been targetted under the
neath-the-surface-the-state-of-the-worlds-water-2019-.pdf
programme. The project involves deepening and widening of
streams, construction of cement and earthen stop dams, work on e-Bhagirath Magazine
nullahs and digging of farm ponds.  Under the programme, works of http://202.159.215.252:85/
compartment bunding, desiltation, mud nalla bunding, cement
check dams, repairs of bunding, KT weirs, farm ponds and village UN World Water Development Report 2019: Leaving No One Behind
talao, refilling of wells, recharge shaft, drip irrigation and sprinkle https://en.unesco.org/water-security/wwap/wwdr/2019#download
irrigation have been brought together. The mobile app, developed by
MRSAC, is being used to map these locations.

History- Bhakra Dam


2nd Highest Dam in India
River- Satluj Height- 226m Length-518m
Purpose- Irrigation and Hydro-electric

Construction Completed- 1963 ( Rs. 248.28 crore)

No. of Spillway Gates-4 Spillway capacity- 8212


cumec
Bhakra Right Bank Bhakra Left Bank Power
Power House is 785 MW House is 594 MW
Area Irrigated -36 Lakh ha
No. of Towns electrified -128

“Bhakra Nangal Project is something tremendous, something stupendous,


and something which shakes you up when you see it. Bhakra, the new
temple of resurgent India, is the symbol of India’s progress.”

Jawaharlal Nehru

Editorial Board 
Sh. Anupam Prasad, CE (HRM)- Editor-in-Chief Sh. S. D. Sharma, Director (WSE)- Member
Sh. Amrendra Kumar Singh, CE (EMO)- Member Sh. Chaitanya K.S., DD(ISM-2)- Member
Sh. Samir Chatterji, CE (PMO)- Member Sh. R. K. Sharma, DD (D&R-Coordination)- Member
Central Water Commission Sh. H. S. Sengar, Director (RM-Coordination)- Member Smt. Rajinder Paul  AD (OL)- Member
Sh. Shiv Sunder Singh, DD (WSE)- Member-Secretary
Sh. Ravi Bhushan Kumar, Director (TC)- Member
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