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International Dam Safety Conference
January 24 , 2018
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- India hosted the first International Dam Safety Conference 2018 at Thiruvananthapuram on January 23-24.
- Central Water Commission is organizing the event in association with Kerala state government.
- Dam safety conferences is an annual event under the Dam Safety Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) project, the conferences will be conducted in DRIP states.
- The key recommendations emerging from the deliberations of the conference will be circulated to stakeholders as well as policy makers for implementation.
- Dam Health and Rehabilitation Monitoring Application (DHARMA) will be launched during the international dam safety conference.
- The app will serve as a web tool to digitize all dam related data effectively.
- It will help to document authentic asset and health information pertaining to the large dams in the country, enabling appropriate actions to ensure need based rehabilitation.
- Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) was implemented by Ministry of Water Resources with assistance from the World Bank.
- The Central Dam Safety Organisation of Central Water Commission is coordinating and supervising the Project implementation.
- The main objectives of DRIP are
- To improve the safety and performance of selected (223 dams across 7 different states) existing dams in a sustainable manner.
- To strengthen the dam safety institutional setup in participating states as well as at central level.
- The Seven DRIP States includes Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, and Uttarakhand.
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