Water Management

Guest post by Parineeta Dandekar

While this news item was about to be published, Pune received heavy rains on the 4th of October (highest in the last 118 years, 104 mm in 40 minutes and 181.3 mm in 24 hours). While the city administration stressed that this was a cloud burst, this claim was quashed by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). This was said to a rare event, which was experienced in many places in Maharashtra.

10 people lost their lives to these rains, including three young children and a 25 year old Ph D researcher, Agnimitra Bannerjee, from National Chemical Laboratory, who was washed away in a channelised nallah stretch. Channels prove to be much more dangerous as the velocity of water is high and there is nothing to hold on to, in case a person falls in one of these fast-flowing nallah channels.

This Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Analytical Methods in Civil Engineering is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Analytical Methods in Civil Engineering is structured into modules on the following topics:

This document describes the Andhra Pradesh Water Resources Regulatory Commission Act and includes:

• A short title and information on the extent and commencement
• Definition of the terms used in the Act
• Details of the Andhra Pradesh Water Resources Regulatory Commission
• Powers, functions and duties of the Commission
• Accounts, audit and reports

This document describes the Karnataka Municipalities Act and includes:

• Details such as the short title, extent and commencement of the Act
  
• Definitions of the terms used in the Act
• Constitution of municipal areas
• Transaction of business by municipal council
• Municipal property and fund
• Obligatory and discretionary functions of municipal councils
• Municipal taxation
• Recovery of municipal claims
• Improvement schemes and improvement boards
• Powers and offences
• Prosecution, suits and powers and police
• Municipal accounts and administration reports
• Control
• Rules and bye-laws
• Appointment and powers of municipal commissioner or chief officer and other municipal officers
• Town panchayat
• Provisions for the conversion of panchayat area into a smaller urban area and for amalgamation and division of smaller urban areas

This Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Watershed Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. 

This Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of  Soil and Rock Mechanics, Dynamics and Structures, Foundation Engineering and Geology is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Soil and Rock Mechanics, Dynamics and Structures, Foundation Engineering and Geology is structured into modules on the following topics: