The users of the data have been categorized as below:-

(iv) Central/State Government offices

(v) Public Sector Undertaking and Institutions/Societies working under the direct
control of Central/State Governments and IITs.
(vi) Research Institutions/Scholars.

3.1.2 Hydrology Project

During 1995-96, the Government of India and nine States entered

into a development credit agreement with the World Bank to implement
“Hydrology Project” under a joint financing arrangement, whereby the
Government of Netherlands provided related technical assistance in the form
of a grant. The Hydrology Project Phase-I has been under implementation
since 22 September, 1995. The total cost of the Project was Rs. 6020 million
and CWC component was Rs. 734 million till the project completion date of
December 2003.

The Hydrology Project aims at establishing a sustainable Hydrological

Information System (HIS) for the Central and the State agencies participating
in the project. A Hydrological Information System comprises the physical
infrastructure and human resources to collect, process, store and disseminate
data on hydrological, geo-hydrological and hydro-meteorological quantity and
quality variables. The Hydrology Project Phase-I covers the entire Peninsular
region of India and in CWC its activities extended to National Water Academy,
Pune, CWC HQ at New Delhi and following 5 Regional Offices:

1. Cauvery and Southern Rivers Organisation (C&SRO), Coimbatore

2. Krishna and Godavari Basin Organisation (KGBO), Hyderabad
3. Mahanadi and Eastern Rivers Organisation (M&ERO), Bhubaneswar
4. Monitoring (Central) Organisation (Mon.-C), Nagpur
5. Narmada and Tapi Basin Organisation (N&TBO), Vadodara

The primary role of the Hydrological Information System (HIS) is to

provide reliable data sets for long term planning, design and management of
water resource and water use systems and for research activities in the
related aspects. It provides the information to users in time and in proper
form. The scope of HIS is not extended to provide data to users on a real time
basis for short term forecasting.

Under the Hydrology Project, following major works have been carried
out by the Central Water Commission:

(i) Optimisation of existing surface water observation network.

(ii) Upgradation of 254 existing Hydrological observation sites and equipping
them with state of the art hydrological and navigational equipments.
(iii) Opening of 30 new observation sites and equipping them with
state-of-the-art hydrological and navigational equipment.
(iv) Upgradation of 10 Level-II and 2 Level-II+ Water Quality Laboratories.
(v) Establishment of 48 Sub-Divisional Data Processing Centres (SDDPC) one in
each sub-division, 13 Divisional Data Processing Centres (DDPC) one in each
Division, for each Region (5 number) a Data Processing and Data Storage
Centre (RDPC and RDSC) and at national level a National Data Centre
(NDC).

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