India 2018

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benefits from Sardar Sarovar Project; regulated releases by Madhya Pradesh;
compensation and rehabilitation and settlement of oustees; and sharing of costs.
Resettlement and Rehabilitation of Oustees
The NCA has been entrusted to do any or all things necessary, sufficient and
expedient for the implementation of the orders of the NWDT. Out of six items
listed for action by the NCA, two related to R&R are as :- (i) acquisition by the
concerned states for Sardar Sarovar Project of lands and properties likely to be
submerged under Sardar Sarovar and; (ii) compensation, resettlement and
rehabilitation of oustees.
Real-Time Data Acquisition System
As per NWDT Award, the NCA is required to issue appropriate directions for
the establishment and maintenance and operation of an effective system of flood
forecasting and flood control including reporting of heavy precipitation, and
telecommunication system.
National Institute of Hydrology
The National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), established in 1978 as an autonomous
organization under Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation (Government of India), is a premier R&D institute in the country
to undertake, aid, promote and coordinate basic, applied and strategic research
on all aspects of hydrology and water resources development. The Institute has
its headquarters at Roorkee (Uttarakhand). To carry out field related research
covering different regions of the country, the Institute has four regional centers
located at Belgaum, Jammu, Kakinada and Bhopal, and two centres for flood
management studies at Guwahati and Patna. The objectives of the Institute are:
(a) to undertake, aid, promote and coordinate systematic and scientific work on
all aspects of hydrology; (b) to cooperate and collaborate with other national,
foreign and international organizations in the field of hydrology; (c) to establish
and maintain a research and reference library in pursuance of the objectives of
the society and equip the same with books, reviews, magazines and other
relevant publications; and (d) to do all other such things as the Society may
consider necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of the objectives
for which the Institute has been established. To fulfil these objectives, the Institute
has established state-of-art laboratory facilities in the area of nuclear applications
in hydrology, water quality, soil water, remote sensing and GIS applications,
snow and glacier, numerical ground water modelling and hydrological
instrumentation.
The Institute acts as a center of excellence for transfer of technology, human
resources development and institutional development in specialized areas of
hydrology, and conducts user defined, demand-driven research through
collaboration with relevant national and international organizations. It
vigorously pursues capacity development activities by organizing training
programmes for field engineers, scientists and researchers, NGOs. Some of the
significant contributions of NIH include studies for solution of real-life problems
related to augmentation of water supply and water management in cities, river-