Approved Minutes of The 76th Meeting of Technical Advisory Committee of National Institute of Hydrology Held on 29 August 2022(Offline and Online Mode)

Abstract

The 76th meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee was held in hybrid mode on 29th August 2022 at Roorkee. The meeting was chaired by Dr. R.K. Gupta, Chairman, CWC. The list of the participants is given in Annexure-I. Dr. J.V. Tyagi, Director, NIH first welcomed the Chairman, Members and invitees. He briefed about the role of the Working Group and Regional Coordination Committees constituted to review the work programme at headquarters and regional centers of NIH. After a round of brief introduction of members and invitees, Director invited the Chairman, TAC for his opening remarks. At the outset, the Chairman welcomed all the participants in his opening remarks. He appreciated the research being carried out by the Institute and desired to work together with other organizations (like CWC, IMD) in various areas related to hydrology. He mentioned that NIH is taking lead role in various research studies related to climate change, groundwater hydrology, sedimentation, salt intrusion, etc. He advised that NIH, CGWB, and the Tamil Nadu Water Resources Department can work together on salt intrusion problems. The Chairman desired that NIH should expore the deficit irrigation scenario, and this may be worked out jointly with NIH and WTC-IARI (New Delhi). The Chairman made a strong case for forming a joint group of NIH and CWC to work on identified studies and problems. After opening remarks by the Chairman, Director, NIH invited Dr. V. C. Goyal, Scientist G & Head, RMOD/Member-Secretary took up the agenda items in the meeting.