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Letpao Haokip dedicates the foundation stone for Hydrological Data Centre building at the Water Resources department complex, Lamphelpat in Imphal on Monday.[/caption]
Our Correspondent
Imphal, Nov. 12 (EMN): Manipur Water Resources Minister Letpao Haokip on Monday dedicated a foundation stone for the construction of the State Hydrological Data Centre Building. The project will be laid at the Water Resources department Complex of Imphal West at Lamphelpat under the funding from the National Hydrology Project (NHP) of the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India.
The National Hydrology Project was initiated by the Ministry of Water Resources as a Central Sector Scheme with the help of World Bank. The Project was implemented in Manipur by the Water Resources department in May 2017.
The project, when completed, will enable flood forecasting and will also ensure river basin planning according to the guidelines of international and national experts.
The total cost of the project is INR 3679.7674 crore for eight years out of which an initial amount of INR 25 crore have been allocated for Manipur. It will be of 8-years duration and would be taken up in two phases of four years each.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister Letpao stated that the centre will provide great benefits to the state of Manipur and expressed hope that the menace of flood will be better solved with the feature of flood-forecasting from this data centre.
Chief Engineer Pritam said that the proposed target for the completion of the construction of the date centre will be two years.
The Project intends to set up a system for timely and reliable water resources data acquisition,storage, collation and management. It would also be a platform to develop tools/ systems for informed decision-making through Decision Support Systems (DSS) for water resources assessment, flood management, reservoir operations, drought management, etc.
The project also seeks to build capacity of the Manipur state in water resources management through the use of information systems and adoption of state-of-the-art technologies like remote sensing and others.
The center will consist of four main components—water resources data acquisition system, water resources information system, water resources operation and planning; and institutional capacity building.
Under this project, Manipur will have numbers of automatic hydrological monitoring stations and instruments for both surface and sub-surface. The collected data from the stations will be house at a data centre building. The river will also initiate flood forecasting modelling and river basin planning in co-ordination with international and national experts.