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Minutes of the 9th Meeting of the Expert Advisory Group(EAG)held at Ahmedabad on 17th to 19th July, 2012. th The 9 meeting of the Expert Advisory Group (EAG) of the Kalpasar Project was held under the Chairmanship of Shri B. N. Navalawala, th Chairman EAG & Advisor to Hon’ble CM at Ahmedabad from 17 to th 19 July, 2012 in which the following members of the EAG participated. EAG Members (i) Prof. T. S. Murty, Member Member (Chairman SAC) (ii) Shri P. P. Vora, Member Member (iii) Mr. Brayan Leyland, Member Member (iv) Dr. M. S. Patel Member Secretary Prof. Asit Biswas, Member, EAG could not remain present due to his pre-occupations. The following Officers of the Government, international and national consultants & representatives from the organizations/Institutes remained present on the day of discussion of respective agenda of meeting. I. Government Officers. 1 Shri V. S. Brahambhatt Chief Engineer (Kalpasar-I) and Addl. Secretary 2 Shri U. K. Saravaiya Chief Engineer, (South Gujarat) & Addl. Secretary, NWRWS & K Dept. (On behalf of Secretary (WR), member EAG.) 3 Shri B. M. Rao Director & Chief Engineer, GERI, Vadodara 4 Shri U. S. Chandorikar Chief Engineer (Kalpasar-II) & Addl. Secretary (I/C) 1 5 Shri N. J. Patel Officer on Special Duty (K) 6 Shri K. S. Patel Superintending Engineer (PIU I, Bhavnagar) 7 Shri A. B. Thakkar Superintending Engineer (PIU II, Vadodara) 8 Shri K. U. Dave Under Secretary (T), Kalpasar Department 9 Shri H. M. Shah Executive Engineer (K) 10 Shri D. P. Mody Executive Engineer (K) (I/C) & EE (PIU.I Bhavnagar) 11 Shri A. K. Patel Executive Engineer, PIU-2, Vadodara 12 Shri Mahipalsinh Raijada DEE, GMB (On behalf of A.C.S. Port department & member EAG.) II Organization/Institute 1 NIOT, Chennai Dr. B. K. Jena, Director, NIOT Shri Venkat Rao, Advisor to NIOT 2 IIT, Delhi /Khadagpur Dr. S. K. Dube, Professor, Prof. P. K. Bhaskaran 3 NGRI, Hyderabad Mr. R. Krishna, Representative NGRI 4 NEERI, Nagpur Dr. J. S. Pandey, Scientist 5 CSMCRI, Bhavanagar. Dr. Kalpanaben Modi, Sr. Dy. Director, Scientist G Dr. J. Chikara, Scientist F Dr. Ajay Bhatt, Senior Principal Scientist Dr. S. Basha, Senior Scientist Shri. M. T. Shah, Scientist Mr. Jignesh, Tech. Assistant 6 CEPT University, Prof. Shashwat Bandopadyay, Dr. Ahmedabad Debasis Sarkar, Shri Hiten Desai, Shri.Akalkotkar. 7 RITES, Delhi Shri.R. N. Das, Manager (Traffic) T & E Division Shri. M. K. Sharma, AM, T&E Division 8 GERI, Vadodara Shri. Sanjay Shrivastav, Shri. S. R. Patel, Shri. Khan. 2 III. National & International Consultants 1 Prof. Ioan Nistor Member SAC & international Consultant 2 Dr. Nagendra Kumar Member SAC, Retd. NIOT, Chennai 3 Shri N. Ghosh Member, SAC, Retd. Add. Director CWPRS 4 Shri R. M. Khatsuriya Member, SAC, Retd. Add. Director, CWPRS 5 Shri D. N. Deshmukh Retd. Chief Research Officer, CWPRS 6 Shri V. K. Kasliwal Retd. Dy. DG GSI & Geology and Geo. Technical Investigation 7 Shri D. M. Pancholi Retd. S.E. (Geo), CDO , Geology 8 Shri R. D. Soni Retd. Secretary (N) 9 Dr. T. N. Chaudhary Retd. Assistant Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, 10 Dr. B. S. Mathur Retd. Prof. IIT Roorkee, Hydrology 11 Dr. P. Nema Retd. Project Advisor ,EIA /SIA 12 Shri K. D. Rathod Retd. M.S. GPCB, EIA/SIA 13 Shri P. D. Trivedi Retd. S.E., NWRWS&K Deptt. 14 Shri R. K. Mehta Transportation 15 Dr. P. J. Patel Retd. Vice Chanceler, S. P. Uni. Vallabh Vidyanagar, SIA 16 Shri B. K. Raijada Retd. Deputy Director, Fisheries 17 Shri R. J. Patel Finance &Project management 18 Shri Sharad Raval Retd. Revenue Department, National Consultant 19 Shri M.N.Bhatt Retd. Superintending Engineer At the outset, Shri B. N. Navalawala, Chairman of EAG welcomed the members, invitees and officials and thanked them for sparing the time for participation in the EAG meeting. 3 2.0 At the outset of the meeting, the EAG discussed in detail regarding fixing of dates of EAG meeting and need of various studies for preparation of DPR of Kalpasar Project as under: I. Now onwards the dates of EAG meeting to be held shall be finalised by the chairman on the basis of general convenience of majority of the members, and, for this purpose, each member will be requested to indicate three dates/slots of the meeting as per his convenience. The meeting will be held accordingly. II. Secretary (K) explained that Prof. Asit Biswas and Prof Sutmuller both member, EAG prepared strategic paper, as road map for implementation of Kalpasar project. The strategic paper also covered an estimate for the preparation of DPR amounting to Rs. 234 crores. This strategic paper covered various items like PMDC, GIS, Regime modeling, Design activities of marine works, site investigation, irrigation and land reclamation, water supply, transportation, EIA/SIA, Economical and financial studies, quality control, capacity building etc. This strategic paper (road map) was accepted in 4th EAG meeting held in January 2007. Secretary (K) further explained that Government of Gujarat, Kalpasar Department has to obtain EIA/SIA clearance from MoEF, New Delhi. NEERI, Nagpur premier Central Government institute has prepared the scoping documents of EIA/SIA of Kalpasar project. To obtaining environmental clearance and for preparing bankable project report, various studies related to Engineering, Environment, Economical, Social, Financial etc are required. Department has identified 56 such studies on the basis of strategic papers and EIA/ SIA mandatory requirement. Each study has been presented 4 time to time to EAG at various stages. Chairman EAG stated that various studies are taken up with the knowledge and consent of the EAG. Further the EAG members are also informed periodically about the progress in all such studies. Minutes of Agenda No.1 The minutes of the 8th EAG meeting was confirmed unanimously. Minutes of Agenda No.2 EAG was apprised the Action Taken Report (ATR), prepared by Kalpasar Department on the decisions taken in the 8th EAG meeting. Minutes of Agenda No.3 Availing the Services of National Consultants/ Experts. The EAG was apprised by Kalpasar Department regarding appointment of the National Level Consultants after 8th EAG meeting in accordance with Government of Gujarat’s G.R. dated 5.5.2006 & 3.12.2011 for carrying out various studies towards preparation of DPR/Bankable Report of the project. The EAG was also apprised regarding the revised rates as per the Govt. Resolution dated 03/12/2011 for availing the consultancy service of national consultants. 5 Minutes of Agenda No. 4a & 4b: Geophysical survey along the revised dam corridor by NIOT, Chennai (1/4) including geotechnical investigation and Geotechnical Survey & investigation for dam design 1.0 Dr. Jena, Deputy Project Director of NIOT presented a detailed progress of important items, reasons for variations of items and delay of this study. He also stated that single beam echo sounding (SBES), single beam bathymetry and grab sampling quantities were increased in quantities. Whereas Multi-Beam Echo Sounding, single channel seismic profiling SCSP, side scan sonar imaging and Marine magnetometer survey quantities were decreased. He further stated that field survey was completed in all respects except submission of report. 2.0 SAC submitted a detailed report of this study. Prof. Tad Murty, Chairman, highlighted the following important issues. 1) Cdr. K L Rao, Hydrographer (Retd) and National consultant verified all data collection and processing. Dr. N. Ghosh, National Consultant, has also verified data analysis of Single channel seismic profiling SCSP and analysis of Marine magnetometer. Dr. N. Ghosh, Shri Pancholi and Shri Kasliwal, National consultants have verified the results of Cone Pentrometer (CPT), Vibrocorer Investigations and the entire geophysical investigation chart/ DTM. 2) The geotechnical data has been obtained to a maximum depth of 6 m. The geophysical and geotechnical map of Blocks A, B,C,D have been prepared by the NIOT. 3) The magnetic map along the dam corridor was useful in ruling out the presence of any hazard on the seafloor like wreckage of ship or magnetic bodies. The survey indicates 6 intrusive bodies in the basement rock, lineaments/ faults. The interpretation also indicates depth variation of basement rock below the thick alluvial deposits. The seismic survey indicates the presence of west bounding marginal fault of cambay Graben. Different lineaments are found to be in general agreement with geological regional map of the area. 4) A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is being generated by compiling all sounding data collected from various teams. The DEM may be used to generate maps in hardcopy in any scale and contours at any interval. 5) Dr. K. M. Sivakholundu, Mr. D. Venkat Rao, Mr. Badrinarayan of NIOT along with Dr. N. Ghosh, Mr. D. M. Pancholi and Mr. V. K. Kasliwal, National consultants and other SAC members studies in depth “Geophysical survey along the revised dam corridor” considering (1) Seismic Magnitude Map of Gujarat, (2) Sub bottom profiling, (3) Corridor Bathymetry Contour with SBP Coverage, (4) Sequential overlay of Bathymetry Contours, (5) Magnetic anomaly map along dam corridor, (6) Single beam bathymetry @ Shallow Portions of Dam Corridor, (7) Seabed Sonic image from Multi-beam backscatter for Area- A, B, C & D, (8) Grab Sampling, (9) Particle size distribution Curve, and (10) Results of Electro-vibro core tests and cone penetration tests are used for fixing dam alignments. 6) NIOT has first investigated 21 alternative (L-1 to L-22 excluding L-17) lines for the water Channel A, B, C and D. The observed fault lines/lineaments for all the deep water channel areas with various geophysical and geotechnical data, NIOT recommended three alignments ( L-3, L-11 and 7 L-19) for further investigation.
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