India is undertaking one of the world's largest dam rehabilitation programs, DRIP, with significant progress made in improving the safety o...

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India has 6,138 completed large dams, with 224 over a century old and 1,065 between 50 and 100 years old. To address aging dam safety, the ...

The Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has declared that 21 out of 23 dams within its borders have violated safety standards. The state has b...

The provisions of the bill is proposed to be applied to all specified dams in the country which have height of more than 15 metres, or betw...

The revised cost has now been pegged at Rs 3,466 crore. Originally, the total cost of the project was Rs 2,100 crore with state component o...

As large dams built just after Independence reach their sell-by dates, tough questions are being raised on India's need for aggressive inve...

The project cost has now been revised to around Rs 3,400 crore and the World Bank has agreed to fund 80% of that, DRIP director Pramod Nara...

Central Water Commission had earlier signed MoUs with IIT-Madras and Indian Institute of Science-Bengaluru in January

New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) To improve its capacity to safeguard dams, the Central Water Commission (CWC) on Friday signed two separate MoUs w...

The one-day workshop was attended by representatives from states, where guidelines for preparation of emergency action plans for dams were ...

Members from Kerala and Tamil Nadu clashed in the LS after a Congress member expressed concern over the safety of Mullaperiyar dam.

Gujarat tops the list with 444 such dams/ reservoirs that fall under zone IV and V, followed by Maharashtra, which has 170 such water bodie...

In an attempt to find a solution to the vexing issue, Chandy would write to his counter part in TN about the danger posed by the dam.