National dam safety conference concludes

A national dam safety conference to deliberate challenges in implementing Central Water Commission's Dam Safety Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) culminated today in Uttarakhand's Roorkee.
Around 400 national and overseas experts shared during the two-day conference their experiences, innovations and technologies to help rework strategies for effectively managing uncertainties associated with dam design, construction and maintenance.
Water Resources Ministry Secretary Amarjit Singh had yesterday inaugurated the conference, organised by Central Water Commission (CWC) along with Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam and IIT-Roorkee, an official statement said.
The Ministry had launched DRIP in 2012 to rehabilitate and improve 225 large dams, which it observed, "may experience distress if not paid attention to" on account of growing old (around 170 dams exceed age of 100 years).

DRIP was launched also to bring about institutional reforms and strengthen regulatory measures pertaining to safe and financially-sustainable dam operations.
The project is being implemented in Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand.