Dear Colleague,

It is heartening to note that a "Water Resources
Forum" is being established at Roorkee,
Uttaranchal, India. A general meeting of the
proposed forum was held on 7th March, 2003.
Proceedings of the same are placed below.

1. About 20 persons from NIH, IRI, Civil,
Hydrology, WRDTC, and AHEC attended the meeting.
The idea of establishing Water Resources Forum at
Roorkee was welcomed by all. All departments
expressed their commitment towards enhanced
co-operation among member departments and
institutes.

2. It was decided that initially the forum will
work in an informal way and the formal
formulation can take place after its recognition
at later stage.

3. The forum will work for benefit of water
resources fraternity at Roorkee without
interfering in the consultancy/ research projects
of individuals.

4. In the next three months, following activities
were envisaged :

i) In order to highlight the capabilities of
various departments/ institutes, a directory of
the facilities/ expertise (experimental,
software, etc.) available be prepared.
(Departments to provide information within 2
weeks)

ii) A seminar/ brain-storming session shall be
organized during the last week of March/ first
week of April on Inter-Basin Transfer of water in
India. (Dr. C D Thatte may be requested to
deliver the lecture.)

iii) An Half-hour presentation from each unit
regarding the research contributions of last five
years and the facilities available shall be
organized. (To be organized within six weeks)

iv) In future, information related to various
technical activities/ lectures by the organizing
department/ institue shall be circulated to all
the departments/ institutes related to water
resources.

5. Opportunity will be provided to visit each
other's department and to share information about
latest arrival of instrumentation and the
experience gained by staff by visiting/ working
at international and national levels. Quarterly
meetings shall be organized on rotational basis.

6. NIH shall provide the list of subjects in
which they have the expertise. Prof. K G Ranga
Raju shall take up the matter with officials, so
that expertise of NIH scientists can be utilized
to teach post graduate courses.

7. The departments/ institute should open up the
library facilities to all the water resources
professionals.

8. Efforts should be made for closer interaction
with public and the facilities should be opened
for visit to public. If possible, working models
should be shown to the public.

9. The forum should work voluntarily to solve the
local level problems like Drinking Water,
Drainage, Water Harvesting, etc.

10. Following core group will co-ordinate for
exchange of information, etc.

NIH, Roorkee Dr. K K S Bhatia, Scientist - F
IRI, Roorkee Sh. O P Dubey
Civil Engg. Deptt., IIT R Prof. G L Asawa
Hydrology, IIT R Dr. M Perumal
AHEC, IIT R Sh. Mukesh Singhal
WRDTC Dr. M L Kansal

11. Efforts shall be made for social gathering.

For any further queries, you may contact Dr. M.
L. Kansal (mlkgkfwt@...).

Best Wishes & Regards
Kumar
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C. P. KUMAR
Scientist 'E1'
National Institute of Hydrology
Jal Vigyan Bhawan
Roorkee - 247667 (Uttaranchal)
INDIA

Phone : +91-1332-272906*237 (O)
+91-1332-270863 (R)
Fax : +91-1332-272123
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