Minutes of 79th meeting of Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee held on 14th July 2025 at CWC, New Delhi

Abstract

The 79th meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee was held on 14th July 2025 (10:30 AM) at CWC, New Delhi. The meeting was Chaired by Dr. Atul Jain, Chairman, CWC. The list of the participants is given in Annexure-I. Dr. M. K. Goel, Director, NIH first welcomed the Chairman (TAC), members and invitees to the meeting. He briefed about the role of the TAC, Working Group (WG) and Regional Coordination Committees (RCC) constituted to review the work program at Headquarters and Regional Centres of NIH. After a round of brief introduction of members, invitees and all Heads of Divisions and RCs of NIH, the Director invited the Chairman, TAC for his opening remarks. At the outset, the Chairman welcomed all the participants and mentioned that this meeting provides an opportunity to reflect on our past achievements, review ongoing research efforts, and deliberate on future directions. The Chairman appreciated the work completed by NIH and was pleased to know about the organization of an International Ground Water Conference (IGWC) by NIH in March, 2025. He emphasized on more collaborative studies of NIH with CWC, CGWB, NMCG, IITs and other Institutions. The Chairman requested members to provide their valuable guidance and feedback on the ongoing and future work program of NIH. After the opening remarks by the Chairman, the Director, NIH invited Member-Secretary, TAC, Dr. Sanjay Kumar to present the agenda items.