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Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) was initiated in April 2012 by the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation through Central Water Commission with an objective to improve safety and operational performance of selected dams in four states namely, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Tamil Nadu.Later Karnataka, Uttarakhand (UJVNL) and Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) joined the DRIP, and number of dams in DRIP portfolio increased to 257; due to the addition/deletion of few dams during implementation by partner agencies, presently 198 dam projects are being rehabilitated.DRIP has been successful in bringing together dam owners, engineers, scientists, academicians, industries, World Bank as well as renowned dam safety professionals.
Under DRIP, capacity building in dam safety area of eleven academic institutions is being done, College of Engineering being one among them. MoUswere signed on 15 January 2019 with College of Engineering Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram for capacity building of Department of Civil Engineering, CET in dam safety are as under the DRIP of CWC.
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