| Name: National Hydrology Project (NHP) | |||
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| Project Components | A. Water Resources Monitoring System (57%) B. Water Resources Information System (11%) C. Water Resources Operations and Planning System (19.6%) D. Institutional Capacity Development (12.4%) |
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| Project Objective | To improve the extent, quality, and accessibility of water resources information, decision support system for floods and basin level resource assessment/planning and to strengthen the capacity of targeted water resources professionals and management institutions in India. | ||
| Project Period | 2016-17 to 2023-24 | ||
| Approved Project Cost | INR 99.00 Crore | ||
| Funding Agencies | 100% Central Assistance as Central Sector Scheme by Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Govt. of India. | ||
| Important Milestones and Timelines | Signing of MoA between Govt of India & Govt of West Bengal | 27th Feb 2017 | |
| Project Completion Date | 31st March 2024 | ||
| Targets and Achievements | Major Activities | Ultimate Targets | Achievement till 31.03.21 |
| 1) Installation of Real Time Data Acquisition System (RTDAS) for | |||
| i) River Gauge stations (AWLR) | 155 | Nil | |
| ii) Rain Gauge stations (ARG) | 66 | Nil | |
| iii) Automated weather stations (AWS) | 9 | Nil | |
| iv) Dam / Barrage Gate Sensors | 111 | Nil | |
| v) Canal Gate Sensors under KRP & MRP | 450 (approx) | Nil | |
| 2) Installation of Barrage Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system | 2 | One ongoing | |
| 3) Installation of Canal SCADA system | 2 | Nil | |
| 4) Creation of Data Centres | 3 | 1 | |
| 5) Water Modelling & Training Centres | 5 | Nil | |
| 6) Development of Flood Warning Systems | 6 Sub-Basins | Nil | |
| 7) Embankment Mapping in some flood prone stretches in South Bengal | 1800 km (approx.) | 110 km ongoing | |
| 8) Scanning & digitisation of important documents under I&W Department and creation of e-library | Historical documents, reports, drawings & hydromet station data | Phase-I completed & e-library linked in I&WD website in secure mode | |
| 9) Basinwise Water Availability Study | Of fourteen districts | Nil | |
| 10) Procurement of sofisticated survey instruments, software & peripherals to strengthen River Research Institute (RRI) | RS-GIS s/w, Malhametical Modeling s/w, Survey siw, ADCP, RTK-DGPS, TS, Digita Level | Almost 80% procurement completed | |