Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Apr 22: Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Sukhnandan Choudhary attended 34th Annual General Meeting of National Institute of Hydrology Society in Delhi.
The meeting was chaired by Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Uma Bharti.
The National Institute of Hydrology Society is the apex body of the institute and meets at least once a year to review the progress and performance of the institute and gives such directions as it may deem fit to the governing body and the institute towards the attainment of the objectives enunciated in the memorandum of the association of the society.
Addressing the meeting, the Minister said water is prime natural resource. Due to global warming variation in climate conditions and change in the intensity of rainfall, a considerable change in the availability of the water resources in different regions of our State has been noticed.
Sukhnandan highlighted various aspects of the damage caused in the State in the wake of devastating floods of 2014. He said various studies are being undertaken in the Jammu Regional Centre of the National Institute of Hydrology and requested to give priority to complete the same in a time bound manner.
Sukhnandan requested the Union Minister to also consider the hydrological studies of the estimation of sediment yield and identification of areas vulnerable to soil erosion and deposition in western Himalayan catchment, hydrological investigation of National Water Springs of Bann Ganga watershed in Jammu and Kashmir, cryospheric processes in an alpine regime, case study of Thajwas catchment, Sindh sub-basin, and hydrological assessment of the floods in the Jhelum river during September 2014.
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