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ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18
BRAHMAPUTRA BOARD
BASISTHA, GUWAHATI
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ANNUAL REPORT OF BRAHMAPUTRA BOARDFOR THE YEAR 2017-18 CONTENT
Chapter – I General Page No 1.1 Brahmaputra Valley and its flood problems; establishment of Board’s 89-97 office, giving th e list of the members of the Board, number of Board’s meetings held and organisational set-up of the Board 1.2 Establishment of Brahmaputra Board and its Functions 97-98 1.3 High Powered Review Board Meeting 98 1.4 Meetings of Brahmaputra Board 99 1.5 Standing Committee of Brahmaputra Board 99 1.6 Meeting of Advisory Committee of NEHARI 99 1.7 Organizational set up of Brahmaputra Board 99 Chapter -II General Review 2.1 Administration and Organization 108 2.2 Finance, Accounts and Audit 108 2.3 Review in progress of works during 2017-18 109-112 Chapter -III Review of progress in preparation of Master Plan; Survey and Investigation; execution, maintenance and operation of multipurpose dams and other works; drawing up of standards and specific ations for construction, operation and maintenance of dams; phased programme for construction by State Governments of all dams and other projects/ schemes incorporated in Master Plan 3.1 Progress of Survey and Investigation and Preparation of Master Plan s, 113 Detailed Project Reports (DPR) for Drainage Development Schemes and DPRs of Multi-Purpose Projects 3.1.1 Preparation of Master Plan 113-114 3.1.2 Current assignment for preparation of Master Plan 114 3.2 Drainage Development Schemes (DDS) 114-118 3.3 Survey and Investigation of Water Resources Projects 118-121 3.4 Construction Activities 122 3.4.1 Pagladiya Dam Project 122 3.4.2 Construction of Raised Platforms 122-123 3.4.3 North Eastern Hydraulic & Allied Research Institute 123-124 3.5 Flood Management and Anti -erosion Schemes(Implementation of 124 Anti-erosion measures) 3.5.1 Anti-erosion measures completed 124 3.5.2. Implementation of Anti-erosion measures underway 125-129 3.6 Monitoring of Schemes under Flood Management Programme of 129-130 Government of India 3.7 Review of the Brahmaputra Board Act ,1980 130 Chapter -IV Non -field Activities of the Brahmaputra Board during the year 2017-18 4.1 Complaint Committee on Sexual Harassment and Gender Justice 131 4.2 Vigilance and Disciplinary cases 131 4.3 Participation in Seminar/ Symposium/ Workshop / Training 132 4.4 Progressive use of Hindi 132-133 4.5 Formulation of Citizen’s Charter 134 4.6 Implementation of Right to Information Act-2005 (RTI) 134 4.7 Observance of Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan 134
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Chapter -V Activities on Persons with Disabilities 5.1 Implementation of various provisions of persons with disabilities 137 5.2 The details of sanctioned posts and the number of persons with 137 disabilities in various posts in group ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’ against 3% vacancies Chapter - VI Important Meetings during the year 201 7-18 6.1 .1 Meeting of High Powered Review Board of Brahmaputra Board 138 6. 1.2 Brahmaputra Board Meetings 138-140 6. 1.3 Standing Committee of Brahmaputra Board Meetings 140 6. 2 Important meetings/events attended by Chairman/Vice-Chairman, 141 Brahmaputra Board during the year 2017-8 Chapter - VII Annual Accounts and Audit by C&AG Office 7.1 Statement of Accounts 142-164 7.2 Significant Accounting Policies and Notes on Accounts 165-167
7.3 Separate Audit Report on the Accounts of the Brahmaputra Board for 168-172 the year 2017-18 7.4 Balance Sheet of Brahmaputra Board Contributory Provident Fund 173-175 Trust
LIST OF ANNEXURES
Annexure Title Page No. No.
I Composition of the Brahmaputra Board 176-177 II Composition of the High Powered Review Board 178 III Organizational Chart of Brahmaputra Board 179 IV Statement of Regular Sanctioned Strength and numbers of 180-181 Officers/Staff in position along with the status of SC, ST, OBC and PH as on 31.03.2018 V List of Officer and Staff undergone 182-184 Training/Seminar/Workshop during 2017-18 VI List of Officers on deputation to other organization 185 VII RTI Annual Return Information System for the year 2017-18 186 VIII Status of Master Plans 187 IX Status of Drainage Development Schemes 188 X Status of Multipurpose Projects 189
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LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND PLATES
Sl. No. Description Page No
1 Jurisdiction Map of Brahmaputra Board 100
Bank pitching works by geobags- protection of Masalabari International boarder (Dhubri, Assam) 2 101 Retirement bund - protection of Mankachar, Kalair-alga scheme
rd th 63 Special meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on 11 April, 2017 at Guwahati 3 102 Release of Study Report 1 D model for ‘ Beta-Test’ on by IIT-Guwahati at Kaziranga by Hon’ble Union Minister of WR,RD&GR on 30.12.2017
4 Execution of Jengrai DDS, Majuli (24.03.2018) 103
64 th meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on 29.06.2017 at HQ of Brahmaputra Board 5 104
65 th Meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on 26.12.2017(adjourned)
Laying of RCC Porcupines at Majuli Island (16.03.2018) 6 105 Casting of RCC Porcupine at Neematighat (Jorhat) on 28.02.2018
1st Official Language Conference at Guwahati organized by Brahmaputra Board on 07.11.2017 7 106
Opening ceremony of Vigilance awareness week 2017
8 Spur No. 2 completed during 2017-18 at Majuli 107
9 Observation of Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan 135-136
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GLOSSARY FOR ABBREVIATIONS AND UNITS ABBREVIATIONS
CWC Central Water Commission DPR Detailed Project Report DDS Drainage Development Scheme IMD India Meteorological Department GoI Government of India MoWR,RD&GR Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation SFC Standing Finance Committee EFC Expenditure Finance Committee NHPC National Hydroelectric Power Corporation NEEPCO North Eastern Electric Power Corporation EIA Environmental Impact Assessment R&R Rehabilitation & Resettlement EMP Environmental Management Plan MPP Multipurpose Project CEA Central Electricity Authority SoI Survey of India NOC No Objection Certificate GSI Geological Survey of India NE North Eastern NER North Eastern Region NEC North Eastern Council NEHARI North Eastern Hydraulic & Allied Research Institute CWPRS Central Water & Power Research Station CSMRS Central Soil & Material Research Station NH National Highway BTC Bodoland Territorial Council B & B Brahmaputra & Barak PAFs Project Affected Families PAP Project Affected People PH Physically Handicapped SC Scheduled Caste ST Scheduled Tribe
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UNITS
Cumec Cubic Meter per Second Cusec Cubic Feet per Second ha Hectare MW Mega Watt m Metre sqkm Square Kilometre ham Hectare metre km Kilometer Rs. Rupees Rupees ft. Feet Cu.m Cubic Meter M. ha Million Hectares BCM Billion Cubic Meter
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Chapter– I
General:
Brahmaputra Valley and its flood problems; establishment of Board’s office, giving the list of the members of the Board, number of Board’s meetings held and organisational set-up of the Board
1.1 Brahmaputra and Barak Valleys and the Rivers of Tripura
1.1.1 Brahmaputra Valley and its flood problems
Brahmaputra, a trans-boundary river is one of the mightiest rivers of Asia. River Brahmaputra is called Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet. It emerges from Angsi Glacier, on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County in southwestern part of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) at an altitude of 4877 m. It flows through southern Tibet in easterly direction for a considerable length, at an average height of 4000 m. At its easternmost point of the reach, the river bends around Mount Namcha Barwa and forms the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon to enter India at Geling (near Tuting). The river then flows down along the Himalayan foothills for 278 km to enter plains of Assam. Here, the river is joined by 2 large rivers, Viz Dibang and Lohit at Kobo to form Brahmaputra. The total length of the river from its source to outfall at Bay of Bengal is 2906 km, 1625 km in Tibet Autonomous Region, 918 km in India (278 km in Arunachal Pradesh and 640 km in Assam) and 363 km in Bangladesh. The river drains an area of 5,80,000 sq km. An area of 293,000 sq km(50.51%) in Tibet (China), 45,000 sq km(7.75%) in Bhutan, 194,413 sq km (33.52%) in India and 47,000 sq km(8.1%) in Bangladesh.
Its basin in India is shared by six states namely, Arunachal Pradesh (41.88%), Assam (36.33%), Nagaland (5.57%), Meghalaya (6.10%), Sikkim (3.75%) and West Bengal (6.47%). Fig 1 shows rivers in the Brahmaputra Basin. The Brahmaputra is the 3rd largest river in the world in terms of its annual discharge and carries highest silt load amongst rivers of its size.
The Brahmaputra River, termed a moving ocean, is an antecedent snow fed river which flows across the rising young Himalayan Range. Geologically, the Brahmaputra is the youngest of the major rivers of the world. In the course of 2906 km journey, the
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Brahmaputra receives as many as 22 major tributaries in Tibet, 33 in India and 3 in Bangladesh.
Fig 1: Brahmaputra River Basin
During its course from Kobo to Dhubri in Assam, about 26 important tributaries on its north bank and about 13 on south bank join the river. Some of the north bank tributaries originate from snow clad Himalayas and others from the lower Himalayas. The total annual flow of the river is about (Avg: 615 BCM/year) BCM at Jogighopa, which is 29% of the total surface flow of the country. Average width of the Brahmaputra Valley is 80 km, out of which the river itself occupies about 6 km to 10 km.
The river is braided and unstable in its entire reach in Assam except for a few locations. The instability of the river is attributed to high sediment charge, steep slope and transverse gradient. Apart from these, the entire area is in a seismic zone and quite often receives earthquake shocks of moderate to severe intensity. The problem further gets aggravated due to landslides caused by high rainfall. Some manmade avoidable actions in the form of shifting cultivation and non-scientific commercial exploitation of forest, etc. have also accelerated the process of soil erosion in the catchments. The silt brought in due to erosion in the hill catchment gets deposited as it enters into the plains of Brahmaputra Valley due to sudden reduction in slope with the consequent reduction in the flow velocity and sediment carrying capacity. Due to heavy deposition of silt, the river frequently changes its course on its way. Excessive silt deposition has also given rise to braiding and meandering pattern in the alignment of the river system. ‘Majuli Island’, the largest inhabited river island is located in the Brahmaputra in upper Assam.
The left bank tributaries of the river Brahmaputra originating from older geological regions of Arakan hill and Khasi hills with flatter slopes, are more stable as they carry less sediment of finer size. By hypsometric analysis of the tributaries, it is seen that the
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North bank tributaries indicate relatively young stage while the South bank tributaries indicate a mature stage. This has given rise to inherent tendency of river Brahmaputra to shift its course towards south and the river flows by the side of hills at many plac es along its left bank.
The floods in Brahmaputra Valley is a recurring phenomenon and has been causing large scale devastations every year. The reasons for floods can be summarized as below:
(a) Physiographic condition: The 650 km long Brahmaputra valley in Assam is only about 80-90 km and confined between hills. Out of the total width, the river itself occupies 6-10 km , and f orest covers a few km of the valley width mostly along the foothills. Tea gardens in certain portions of the valley occupy much of the high land. Only the balance area of the valley is inhabited where cultivation is done mostly in low lying fields. This adverse topographical feature and settlement of populace in the vulnerable regions is a major cause for frequent and damaging floods in the valley.
Fig 2 : physiographic condition of the valley
2 Meteorological situation: Area under Brahmaputra basin in North East region receives very high annual rainfall ranging from 248 cm to 635, concentrated largely during 5 rainy months and to a lesser extent, in the 3 pre-monsoon months. Intensity of rainfall is also quite high. Rainfall of more than 40mm in an hour is frequent in the valley and rainfall around 70 mm per hour is also not uncommon. As high as 500mm of rainfall in a day, has been recorded at several locations. Overall, meteorological conditions favour heavy flooding in the valley. Fig. 3 shows the annual rainfall of the Brahmaputra basin in India.
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Fig. 3 (c) Topographic conditions: The narrow valley of Assam is surrounded by hills. The main stem of Brahmaputra (Siang) and most tributaries joining it in the valley have high gradient in these hills. Whenever there is heavy rainfall in the hills, huge quantities of rain water comes down as runoff to the valley within a short duration due to steep gradients. As Brahmaputra and these tributaries have flat gradients in the valley, this water cannot be carried forward immediately. To accommodate itself, the excess water swells and spreads out overflowing riverbanks and causing floods.
(d) Earthquake and landslides: The NE region is highly seismic and geologically unstable. As a consequent of these earthquakes, debris and loose earth from the landslides roll down are washed away by the mountain streams. These are deposited in the river beds of the valley thus aggrading it. This results in the reduction of the carrying capacity of Brahmaputra in the subsequent years after a major earthquake thereby accentuating floods and erosion problem in the valley.
(e) Encroachment of floodplains: In 1940-41, the population density of Brahmaputra valley was quite low ranging from 9 to 29 person/sq km in different districts of Assam. As per present trend, population density is 200 person/sq km in the plain areas of Assam. It has led to increased pressure on the limited land resource of the valley, encroachment of floodplains and thereby accentuating the flood problem in the valley.
(f) Embankment Breaches: Undoubtedly, embankments have provided reasonable protection against floods since their construction. However, many of the embankments are more than four decades old. Maintenance deficit and subsequent higher levels of floods combined with river bed aggradations has led to breaches of these embankments causing floods and inundation in protected areas. Main causes of Erosion in the Brahmaputra Basin Similar to floods, erosion is an equally, if not more, serious problem. Erosion causes permanent loss of land to the valley’s agro-based people, turning them into paupers. A bank line study of the Brahmaputra River carried out with satellite imagery from 1988
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to 2015 reveals that there has been a total erosion of 798 sq km against total deposition of only 208 sq km during this period. Even this deposited land doesn’t have immediate value as the same can be utilized for agricultural purpose only after the formation of the top soil, which generally takes several years. Study done in the Master Plan of main stem of Brahmaputra also reveals that the average erosion between the years 1954 to 1969 has been about 80.51 sq km with 6000 families losing their land annually.
In fact, floods and erosion are interrelated. Floods are intricately linked to causes of erosion whereas erosion leads to floods in many cases. The extent of loss due to erosion in the valley varies from year to year depending on the severity of floods.
However, the main reason for erosion by Brahmaputra is that it is an extremely braided river. The characteristic features of a braided river configuration such as Brahmaputra are a wide channel, unstable and poorly defined banks and shallow water. The watercourse consists of a number of entwined channels, divided by islands, which meet, cross and separate again. During floods, the channels are combined, most of the sand bars get submerged and the river appears to be a wide straight unbroken channel.
The main causes which seem to bring about braiding of the Brahmaputra river are:
a. Steep slopes b. An abundant bed load c. Erodible banks and d. A highly variable discharge.
It was concluded in the Study in the Master Plan concluded main stem Master Plan that erosion was 1927 sq km and that from 1923 and 1954, deposition was 334 sq km between erosion has happened in 230 Km reach of the Brahmaputra Recent Study of satellite imagery by Board reveals erosion was 739 sq km and deposition was 209 sq km from 1988 to 2016
A Study by IITG shows that erosion from 1970s to 1990 in North Bank is 543.72 km 2&South bank is 744.06 km 2. Deposition during this period was 30.84 km 2 in North Bank and 87.56 km 2 south bank
Results of various studies on Erosion in Brahmaputra
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900.0 800.0 Trend Analysis 700.0
) Deposition
2 600.0 500.0 400.0
Area (Km Area 300.0 200.0 100.0 0.0
Period PERIOD WISE EROSION & DEPOSITION FOR BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER
Crops grown in the Brahmaputra Valley are paddy, jute, mustard, pulses, wheat and sugarcane. Paddy and jute are mainly grown and harvested during monsoon period. Out of four types of paddy crops viz. the Ahu, Sali, Bao and Boro, which constitute about 92% of the cropped area, the first two namely Ahu and Sali are generally affected by floods. The maximum area affected due to floods in the Brahmaputra Valley (including Barak) during the period 1953-2011 was approximately 6.05 M.ha (Arunachal Pradesh 2010 - 0.3M.ha, Assam1988 - 3.82 M.ha, Manipur 1987- 0.116 M.ha, Meghalaya 1987 - 0.095 M.ha, Mizoram 1993 - 0.541 M.ha, Nagaland 1993 - 0.009 M.ha, Tripura 1963 - 0.33 M.ha and Sikkim 2000 -1.17 M.ha)(Source- CWC report November 2012). The flood damage includes crop damage and the permanent loss of land due to erosion. A number of lives are also lost during each flood.
The flood and river management measures adopted so far in the valley are area specific and mostly of short term structural measures such as construction of embankments, permeable and impermeable spurs, revetments etc. The poor maintenance of the flood management structures generally causes unexpected miseries to the people in case of their failure. The efficacy of these measures especially in the river system of Brahmaputra, which is highly aggrading/ degrading in different reaches, is also debatable. As such, there is a need for constructing storage reservoirs in combination with other structural/ non-structural measures after studying the river behavior using scientific tools.
For management of floods, erosion control and improvement of drainage congestion, Brahmaputra Board has prepared Master Plans of the Brahmaputra main stem and its 39 tributaries and for Majuli Island. There is also a need to implement the various recommendations made in the Master Plans of Brahmaputra sub-basin prepared by Brahmaputra Board. The regional Task Force “B” for flood management in N.E. Region has also submitted its report to the MoWR, RD&GR, which should be taken into consideration for early implementation in a time bound manner.
1.1.2 Barak Valley
The river Barak is a part of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna system and is the second largest river of the N.E. Region having eight major tributaries. It originates from a hill east of Mouthana at an elevation of about 2840 m in the southern slopes of Nagaland/Manipur. The Barail, Patkai and Lushai hills bound the sub-basin on its three sides. Total catchment area of the Barak sub-basin up to Indo-Bangladesh border is 41,704 sq km out of which 751 sq km lies in Myanmar. The annual flow from Indian catchment is 29.6 BCM at Badarpurghat. The length of the river from its source up-to Bhanga in Karimganj district is 532 km after which the Barak bifurcates into two
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branches known as the Surma and the Kushiara. These two branches enter Bangladesh and again join to form a single river channel and flow up to Bhairab Bazar where it meets with Meghna in Bangladesh.
The river Barak is joined by a number of hill streams on both its banks. Flood occurs frequently in this valley causing extensive damage to lives and properties. In order to manage the problem of flood, erosion and drainage congestion, various measures have been taken from time to time by way of construction of embankments, bank protection and drainage improvement works etc. These measures have provided adequate protection to the people of the valley against low and medium floods. However, in case of high floods, embankments are not able to withstand heavy pressure, consequently number of breaches occur which cause devastating floods in the valley. In order to deal with the problems of flood, bank erosion and drainage congestion, the Brahmaputra Board has prepared Master Plans for the Barak sub- basin and Dhaleswari, one of the major tributaries of Barak.
1.1.3 Rivers of Tripura
There are ten important rivers in Tripura, namely Longai, Juri, Deo, Manu, Dhalai, Khowai, Haroa, Gumti, Muhuri and Fenni. These rivers causing frequent flood in the State. Based on investigation and data collected from state Government and various other Central Agencies, the Brahmaputra Board has prepared Master Plans for all these rivers and these have been approved by the Central Government. The Master Plans envisage various structural and non-structural measures to tackle flood, erosion and drainage congestion problems. The Feni flows through the “No man’s land” of Indo-Bangla border and its right bank falls in India. The Master Plan of Feni River is taken up for survey and investigation preparation. Feni river, being the International
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Boundary, there are some difficulties in carrying out ‘Survey & Investigation’ works on account of which preparation of Master Plan is time-consuming.
पुरा क नद णाल Rivers System of Tripura
1.1.4 Rivers of Meghalaya
MoWR, RD&GR through Office Memorandum No. 19/2/2010-B&B/3563-3580 dated 3 rd September 2010 constituted a ‘Joint Team’ under the Chairmanship of Chief Engineer (P&D) (now Chief Engineer-I), Brahmaputra Board in matter related to Integrated Water Resources Development in the State of Meghalaya. The ‘Joint Committee’ identified 18 rivers of Meghalaya for preparation of Master Plans. Master Plans of 6 rivers out of these have already been approved by Govt of India. Master Plan of 3 sub- basins formulated by the Brahmaputra Board are in various stages of approval. Out of the remaining 9 Master Plans, draft Master Plans of Ganol, Waikhyrwi, Umtru and Umsohryngkew were completed. However, these are under modification as per suggestion of MoWR,RD&GR.
बांगलादेश क और वाहमान मेघालय क न दयां Rivers of Meghalaya draining to Bangladesh
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1.1.5 Rivers of Sikkim and West Bengal draining into Brahmaputra River Basin
Teesta, Jaldhaka, Torsa and Sankosh-Raidak are four river systems of Sikkim and West Bengal that outfall into river Brahmaputra. Master Plans for all the four sub- basins have been formulated. These four Master Plans have been approved by Board and were submitted for approval of Government of India after compliance of observations of MoWR, RD&GR.
1.1.6 Imphal River in Manipur
The Imphal River emerges in the highlands to the west of Kangpokpi and flows towards the south. Brahmaputra Board is in the process for formulation of a Master Plan of Imphal River.
1.2 Establishment of Brahmaputra Board and its Functions
The Brahmaputra Board, an autonomous statutory body, was set up under an Act of Parliament called the ‘Brahmaputra Board Act, (Act 46 of 1980)’ under the then Ministry of Irrigation (now Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation). The jurisdiction of Brahmaputra Board includes both the Brahmaputra and Barak Valleys and covers all the States of the North Eastern Region including Sikkim and part of West Bengal falling under Brahmaputra basin. The Board consists of 21 Members under the Chairman, Brahmaputra Board (4 full time Members and 17 part time Members), List of Members of the Board appointed under clause (A), (B), (C), (D) & (E) of sub-section (3) of section (4) is at Annexure-I
Since creation of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) and inclusion of Sikkim and part of West Bengal falling in Brahmaputra Basin within the jurisdiction of Brahmaputra Board, the Secretary of DoNER; the Secretary, I&FCD, Sikkim; the Secretary, Irrigation and Waterways Department, West Bengal are included as Special Invitees in Board meetings along with the Chief Engineer (B&BB), CWC, Shillong and Adviser (NE), NITI Aayog (former Planning Commission).
The Board started functioning with its Headquarters at Guwahati from 11.01.1982. As per sub-section (2) of section (3) of the Brahmaputra Board Rules, 1981 Board has established a Liaison Office at New Delhi.
A High Powered Review Board to oversee the work of the Brahmaputra Board was constituted with the Union Minister of Water Resources as the Chairman. List of Members of the High Powered Review Board appointed by the Government of India
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vide Resolution No. 2(17)/80/FC/460 dated 19.03.1982 and as amended vide Resolution No.23/8/925-ER dated 01.10.1992 is at Annexure-II .
1.2.1 Functions of the Brahmaputra Board
The main functions of Brahmaputra Board stipulated in the Act are – (a) Carry out surveys and investigations in the Brahmaputra Valley (within its jurisdiction) and prepare Master Plans for the control of floods and bank erosion and improvement of drainage in the Brahmaputra Valley. The Board shall have regard to the development and utilization of water resources of the Brahmaputra Valley for irrigation, hydro power, navigation and other beneficial purposes and shall, as far as possible, indicate in such plan the works and other measures which may be undertaken for such development;
The Master Plan shall be submitted to the Central Government as soon as may be after it has been prepared or, as the case may be revised and the Central Government shall, after consultation with the State Governments concerned, approve the same subject to such modifications as it may deem fit.
(b) Formulation of programme, in consultation with State Government(s), for construction / implementation, in phases, of dams and other projects identified in the Master Plans, approved by Government of India; (c) Preparation of Detailed Project Reports and estimates including apportionment of cost among States in respect of the dams and other projects; (d) Finalization of standards and specifications for construction, operation and maintenance of such dams and other projects and; (e) Construction, operation and maintenance of Multipurpose and other Water Resources Projects, identified in the Master Plans, on approval of Government of India; (f) Perform any other function which may be prescribed for the proper implementation of this Act. (g) Perform such other functions as are supplemental, incidental or consequential to the functions specified in section 12 or in clauses (a) to (d), or prescribed under clause (e), of this sub-section.
1.3 Meeting of High Powered Review Board
9th Meeting of ‘High Powered Review Board’ of Brahmaputra Board was held on 30.12.2017 at Kaziranga, Assam
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1.4 Meetings of Brahmaputra Board
3(three) Board meetings were held during the financial year. The 63 rd Special meeting of Brahmaputra Board was held on 11 th April 2017 at H. Q. of Brahmaputra Board, Basistha, Guwahati to discuss the Proposal of Restructuring of Brahmaputra Board where all the Members representing the States under its jurisdiction participated. The 64th meeting was held on 29 th June 2017 at H. Q. of Brahmaputra Board, Basistha, Guwahati with normal agenda of functioning of the Board. The 65 th meeting was convened on 26 th December 2017 at H. Q. of Brahmaputra Board, Basistha, Guwahati which was adjourned for want of quorum and the adjourned meeting of Brahmaputra Board was held on 27 th March 2018 at Brahmaputra Board Complex, Basistha, Guwahati-29.
1.5 Standing Committee of Brahmaputra Board
2(two) meetings 58 th & 59 th of Standing Committee of Brahmaputra Board were held during the year on 21.6.2017 (58 th ) and 26.12.2017 (59 th ).
1.6 Meetings of Advisory Committee of NEHARI
1st Meeting of Advisory Committee of NEHARI was held on 06.10.2017 under the Chairmanship of Chairman, Brahmaputra Board at Brahmaputra Board Complex, Basistha, Guwahati-29.
1.7 Organizational Set-up of Brahmaputra Board
A chart showing the existing organizational set up of the Board is given at Annexure-III.
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All NE States, Sikkim and part of West Bengal (Coochbehar, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar,
Darjeeling District
े े &Kalimpongonly)
- ु बोड का अ धकार का बोड मप JURISDICTION OF BRAHMAPUTRA BOARD OF BRAHMAPUTRA JURISDICTION
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यो-बेग से तट पल तर का काय – मसलाबार , अ तरा य सीमा (धुबर , असम) का तर ण BANK PITCHING WORKS BY GEOBAGS- PROTECTION OF MASALABARI, INTERNATIONAL BOARDER (Dhubri, Assam)
रटायरम ट बंड – मानकाछार, कालाईर-आ गा क म का तर ण RETIREMENT BUND - PROTECTION OF MANKACHAR, KALAIR-ALGA SCHEME
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दनांक 11 अ ैल 2017 को गुवाहाट म आयोिजत मपु बोड क 63 वीं वशेष बैठक 63 rd Special meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on 11 th April, 2017 at Guwahati
दनांक 30.12.2017 को कािजरंगा म जल संसाधन, नद वकास और गंगा संर ण मं ालय के माननीय के य मं ी के कर-कमल से आइआइट गुवाहाट वारा बीटा-टे ट के लए तैयार कए गए अ य़यन 1डी मौडल का वमोचन Release of Study Report 1 D model for ‘ Beta-Test’ on by IIT-Guwahati at Kaziranga by Hon’ble Union Minister of WR,RD&GR on 30.12.2017
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ज ाइ जल नकास वकास क म, माजुल का न पादन (24.03.2018) EXECUTION OF JENGRAI DDS, Majuli (24.03.2018)
ज ाइ जल नकास वकास क म, माजुल का न पादन EXECUTION OF JEGRAI DDS, Majuli
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दनांक 29.06.2017 को मपु बोड मु य़ालय म आयोिजत मपु बोड क 64वीं बैठक 64 th meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on 29.06.2017 at HQ of Brahmaputra Board
दनांक 26.12.2017 को आयोिजत मपु बोड क 65वीं बैठक (आ थ गत) 65 th Meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on 26.12.2017(adjourned)
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माजुल वीप पर आर सी सी पा यु पाईन का बछाना (16.03.2018) Laying of RCC Porcupines at Majuli Island (16.03.2018)
नमातीघाट (जोरहाट) म 28.02.2018 को आर सी सी पा यु पाईन का काि टंग Casting of RCC Porcupine at Neematighat (Jorhat) on 28.02.2018
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दनांक 07.11.2017 को मपु बोड वारा गुवाहाट म आयोिजत थम राजभाषा स मेलन 1st Official Language Conference at Guwahati organized by Brahmaputra Board on 07.11.2017
सतक ता जाग कता स ताह 2017 का उ घाटन स Opening ceremony of Vigilance awareness week 2017
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माजुल म 2017-18 के दौरान पूरा कया गया पर नं-2 Spur No. 2 completed during 2017-18 at Majuli
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Chapter – II
General Review
2.1 Administration and Organization
High Powered Review Board: A High Powered Review Board to oversee the work of the Brahmaputra Board was constituted with the Union Minister of Water Resources as the Chairman, Chief Minister of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland & Tripura and Union Minister / Ministers of State for Finance, Transport, Power, Agriculture, Water Resources,RD&GR, Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, RD&GR, Chairman, Central Water Commission as Members and Chairman, Brahmaputra Board as the Member-Secretary. Member (RM), CWC is a permanent invitee.
Brahmaputra Board: The Brahmaputra Board was constituted in 1980 by an Act of Parliament Brahmaputra Board Act, 1980 (No. 46 of 1980). The Board consists of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, General Manager as full time Member, Financial Adviser Ex-officio member and 17 part time Members representing 7 States of the North Eastern Region, North Eastern Council, concerned Ministries of Government of India namely Water Resources, Finance, Agriculture, Power, Surface Transport and Organisations of Government of India, namely Central Water Commission, Central Electricity Authority, India Meteorological Department and Geological Survey of India.
Standing Committee: A Standing Committee is also constituted by Government of India with Chairman/Vice-Chairman as Chairman and Member (RM), Central Water Commission, Secretary Water Resources, Government of Assam, Financial Adviser, Brahmaputra Board as Member and General Manager, Brahmaputra Board as Member Convener to examine the Annual Action Plan / Budget Allocation, decide priority of works and exercise the financial power and delegate financial powers.
2.2 Finance, Accounts and Audit
Brahmaputra Board is provided funds under ‘grants-in-aid’ by the Government of India for its works and establishment expenditure. Brahmaputra Board has a Financial Adviser to render advice on all matters relating to finance, maintenance of accounts and to conduct internal audits of Brahmaputra Board. The Financial Adviser is assisted by ‘Finance Wing’ consisting of a Deputy Financial Adviser, Senior Accounts Officer, Accounts Officers and other supporting staff to assist him in these works. Each field Division is provided with a Divisional Accountant/ Junior Accountant to maintain proper accounts of field works and advise the Executive Engineers in account matters. The General Manager shall also exercise the powers and duties as hereinafter prescribed under Rule 16 in the matters pertaining to budget and allocation or re- appropriation of grants. The fund allocations to the Divisions and their expenditure are maintained by the Finance Wing on monthly/quarterly / annual basis.
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2.3 Review in progress of works during 2017-18
2.3.1 Survey& Investigation and preparation / updating of Master Plan
a) 5(five) Master Plans of Jaldhaka, Tangani, Simsang, Torsa and Teesta were submitted to concerned State Governments for views / comments after final modification. The comments received from State Governments as received have been attended and appended. Master Plan of Jaldhaka was approved in 64 th meeting of Brahmaputra Board and submitted to Ministry for approval of Government of India. Master Plans of Tangani, Simsang, Torsa and Teesta were approved in 65 th meeting of Brahmaputra Board and were under process to submit to the Ministry. It was proposed to modify all the draft Master Plans completed by Brahmaputra Board in the similar lines.
b) Preparation of new Master Plans will be taken up on completion of modification of draft master plans already prepared.
2.3.2 Drainage Development Schemes (DDS):
Preparation DPR of Depota DDS was cleared by CWC during 2017-18. DPR of Amjur, Dharmanagar and Demow DDSs were under compliance of observation of CWC. The 65 th meeting of Board held on 27.03.2018 decided to obtain the required NOC as per condition of Brahmaputra Board Act 1980 from State Governments before processing for clearance of DPR and subsequent implementation. Accordingly Water Resources Department, Assam was requested to issue NOC.
2.3.3 Survey & Investigation and preparation of DPR of Multipurpose Projects including Mini-Micro Projects
a) Kulsi MP Project and Noa-Dehing Dam Project ::All technical chapters of both DPRs cleared by CWC & CEA. The DPR of Noa-Dihing Project was included in Agenda of TAC of MoWR, RD&GR held on 12.03.2018, but was not approved by the TAC due to non finalization of implementing agency. The 65 th meeting of Board held on 27.03.2018 decided to request the State Government of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to identify the implementing Agency and source of funding before placing the same in the Technical Advisory Committee TAC) of Ministry for techno-economic clearance of the project. b) Simsang (Someswari) Dam Project and Jiadhal Dam Project :: Hydrological data collection continued. Topographical survey, geological investigation and construction material survey are in progress. The 65 th meeting of Board held on 27.03.2018 decided to complete the remaining Survey & Investigation (S&I) works and DPR preparation through WAPCOS. c) Killing Dam Project : Hydrological data collection continued. Layout prepared and submitted to CWC for finalization. Observations received from CWC were being attended. Infrastructural development, topographical survey, geological investigation and construction material survey were in progress. In the 65 th meeting of Board held on 27.03.2018 decided to hand over the project to NEEPCO for remaining S&I works and DPR preparation and subsequent implementation.
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2.3.4 Feasibility studies for channelization of river Brahmaputra- Mathematical model studies etc.
IIT, Guwahati was entrusted to carry out Mathematical Model Study of River Brahmaputra with emphasis on climate change to understand the river dynamics through a MoU. 1 D study report “Beta-Test” was released during 9th meeting of HPRB held on 30.12.2017 at Kaziranga, Assam by Hon’ble Union Minister of Water Resources.
2.3.5 Execution of Drainage Development Scheme (DDS):
a) Barbhag DDS : The works of construction of embankment & re-sectioning of channel were completed under revised DPR of Rs. 14.80 crore. Construction of sluice regulator and its associated works were continued. Due to uncontrolled release of ground water in the foundation excavation, a part of the foundation has been modified replacing the RCC cutoff walls by sheet piles during the year. Considering the non-workability condition during monsoon, it was decided to resume the work after the monsoon. b) Amjur DDS : Revised DPR for Rs. 62.28 crore was under appraisal of CWC. On receipt of techno-economic clearance from CWC, construction of sluice would be taken up. 33.50% of works was completed. c) Jengrai DDS : Revised estimate for Rs. 523.24 lakh was cleared by CWC. Construction of sluice of Jengrai DDS was in progress and almost 65% of sluice work was completed. d) Jakaichuk DDS : Works envisaged under the scheme almost completed.
2.3.6 New Drainage Development Scheme proposed to be taken up for execution 2017-18 to 2019-20
Following DDSs were included in the approved Planned Scheme of MoWR,RD&GR “River Basin Management” for continuation of Brahmaputra Board during the period 2017-18 to 2019-20-
Demow, Pola, Dharmanagar, Pota Kalong, Larsing, Nelli and Kalamanijani DDS.
2.3.7 North Eastern Hydraulic and Allied Research Institute (NEHARI):
This institute was established under Brahmaputra Board at Rudreswar, North Guwahati as per clause 7 of Assam Accord, and operationalized during 1996. The main functions of NEHARI are material testing, carrying out Hydraulic model studies etc. Facilities such as Hydraulic Laboratory with model trays and flumes and Laboratories for testing soil, concrete, other construction materials and foundation rock exist in the institute. An Advisory Committee of NEHARI was constituted under the Chairmanship of Chairman, Brahmaputra Board with members from CWPRS, CSMRS, CGWB, IITG, WAPCOS, NERIWALAM& NWA- Pune to govern the functions of NEHARI. 1st meeting of Advisory Committee of NEHARI was held on 06.10.2017. Board also signed a MoU with NERIWALAM to utilize the infrastructures of NEHARI for organizing training by NERIWALAM.
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2.3.8 Flood Control & Anti erosion works
a) Protection of Majuli Island from floods and erosion works
Continuing the protection works of Majuli Island under Phase –II &III, expenditure of Rs.129.08 crore has been incurred up to March 2018with Rs. 8.59 crore during 2017-18. Works envisaged under Phase-II&II was completed within the financial year. With the implementation of works under various phases, the land mass of Majuli Island has increased from 502.21 sq km to 524.29 sq km from the year 2004 to 2016 as per evidence drawn from satellite imagery data. Thus, 22.08 sqkm of land was successfully reclaimed by Brahmaputra Board in Majuli island. b) Restoration of Dibang and Lohit Rivers to their original courses at Dhola-Hatighuli (Avulsion of Brahmaputra at Dholla-Hatighuli Phase-IV)
Work was completed in March 2016 with an expenditure of Rs. 56.59 crore. Only maintenance continued.11villages under Doomduma Revenue Circle in an area of about 1500 ha was secured from floods from the year 2004 onwards.
c) Restoration of Dibang and Lohit rivers to their original courses at Dhola-Hatighuli, Phase-V - Conversion of the existing tie bund across the spill channel of river Dibang in to a full-fledged embankment at Bahbari and construction of new embankment -Part-A of Phase – V:
DPR for this work has been prepared as per recommendation of TAC-(BB) and was under appraisal of CWC.
d) Protection of Balat Village in Meghalaya on River Umngi.
Part –I of scheme amounting Rs. 5.63 crore was taken up for implementation within the administrative approval and completed in January 2016.
DPR for part -II work for Rs. 12.87 crore prepared as per recommendation of TAC- (BB) was in the final stage of clearance by CWC, Shillong Office.
e) Anti-erosion works for protection of Mankachar, Kalair-alga International Border area from erosion of river Brahmaputra, Assam.
The area was subjected to severe erosion of river Brahmaputra threatening the existing IBB link road, border fencing, and border road and adjoining vast area of Hatsingimari town. Original scheme of Rs 23.79 crore was modified due to ban on extraction of boulder by Hon’ble High Court of Meghalaya for Rs. 20.25 crore substituting boulders by Geobag. Status of implementation at the of the year was as under-
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f) Anti-erosion measure in Masalabari area near International Border in Assam - Poor response of tenderer led for repeated retendering for implementation for which commencement of execution was delayed. The status at the of the year was:
(i) Supplying and laying of RCC porcupine screens- Work commenced on 16.02.2018 and 20.60% progress achieved
(ii) Bank revetment works - 54.26% completed
g) Anti-erosion measures for bank protection of Bhajaner Cherra, Nishiganj area under Cooch Behar Block No. II along the left bank of River Mansai in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal
(i) Administrative Approval and Expenditure Sanction was accorded.
h) Bank protection work at Bhogdebri area on the Right Bank of River Mansai in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal.
(i) Administrative Approval and Expenditure Sanction was accorded.
2.3.9 Raised Platform
55% of progress was achieved during 2017-18 with overall 91.24% progress in construction of raised platform at Satrakanara area in Barpeta District, Assam. NDMA was requested to keep the Brahmaputra Board in the loop for assisting NDMA for implementation of such schemes in North Eastern Region.
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Chapter- III
Review of progress in preparation of Master Plan; Survey and Investigation; execution, maintenance and operation of multipurpose dams and other works; drawing up of standards and specifications for construction, operation and maintenance of dams; phased programme for construction by State Governments of all dams and other projects/ schemes incorporated in Master Plan.
3.1 Progress of Survey and Investigation and Preparation of Master Plans, Detailed Project Reports (DPR) for Drainage Development Schemes and DPRs of Multi-Purpose Projects
3.1.1 Preparation of Master Plans
The Brahmaputra Board had taken up preparation of Master Plans of the main stem of the Brahmaputra and Barak along with 68 major tributaries of Brahmaputra, including Majuli Island, River Dhaleswari and rivers of Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura in three Parts.
Part River Number Status Part-I Main stem Brahmaputra 1 Approved by the Government of India River Part-II Master Plan on Barak 1 Approved by the Government of India Rive r and its tributaries except Dhaleswari Part-III Master Plan on 68 o Approved by the Government of India-47 tributaries of the Master Plans Brahmaputra and o Submitted to MoWR,RD&GR for approval rivers of Tripura of the Government of India(GoI). Further including Majuli Island observations of the Ministry were compiled and Dhaleswari by Board and approved by 64 th and 65 th Adjourned meeting of Board -5 Master Plans o Submitted to MoWR,RD&GR for approval of the GoI. Furth er observations of the Ministry were under compliance - 3 Master plans o Draft Master Plan completed . To be modified further on the lines of latest suggestions of MoWR,RD&GR -5 Master Plans o New basins identified for preparation of Master Plans- 8 Sub-basins Total 70
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During the year 2017-18
Master Plans of Jaldhaka, Tangani, Simsang, Torsa and Teesta were completed and approved by 64 th and 65 th Meeting of Brahmaputra Board to submit to the Ministry of WR,RD&GR for approval of Government of India. Master Plans of Kynshi, Umngot and Sankosh-Raidak were under modification.
As these 8 Master Plans were on priority no new Master Plans were finalized by Board during 2017-18.
3.1.2 Current Assignment for Preparation of Master Plans:
The following rivers of Meghalaya were identified for preparation of Master Plans –
1. Waikhyrwi 2. Umtrew 3. Ganol 4. Bugi 5. Dareng 6. Umsohryngkew 7. Umiew 8. Myntdu 9. Lubha
Master Plans of Imphal River, Feni River, Kolodyne and Tuichang were identified for preparation of Master Plans. Preparation of new Master Plan was proposed to be taken up on completion of modification of draft master plans already prepared.
A pictogram of the status of Master Plan is given at Annexure – VIII
3.2 Drainage Development Schemes (DDS)
In the approved Master Plans prepared by Brahmaputra Board 41 drainage congested areas were identified for preparation of detailed project report (DPR).
3.2.1 Completed Drainage Development Schemes:
• Harang Drainage Development Scheme
The scheme with estimated cost of Rs. 30.49 crore is located in Barak Valley on the border of Bangladesh near Badarpur with expenditure of Rs. 33.90 crore and completed during March, 2011and was handed over to WRD, Assam. It benefits 11850 ha of chronically drainage congested areas in Barak Valley, Assam for agriculture.
• East of Barpeta Drainage Development Scheme
The revised estimate for Rs. 2.96 crore was taken up for execution in March, 2009 and completed in June, 2011 with the expenditure of Rs. 2.67 crore. The scheme has already been handed over to WRD, Assam. It benefits 2852 ha of chronically drainage congested areas in Barpeta District for agriculture.
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3.2.2 Under Execution: • Jakaichuk Drainage Development Scheme
The scheme was under execution by Brahmaputra Board since 2008.Works envisaged under the approved estimate completed. The scheme would accrue benefits to an area of2308 ha for agriculture.
• Barbhag Drainage Development Scheme
Brahmaputra Board took up the execution of Borbhag Drainage Development Scheme during the year 2006. Two components of the work - (1) Raising and strengthening of embankment and (2) Re-sectioning of channel have already been completed in March 2012. The DPR was revised to Rs. 14.80 crore incorporating revised design of sluice. The work of remaining part of the scheme construction of the sluice was in progress and 24.94% progress was achieved up to March, 2018with an overall expenditure of Rs 10.40 crore. Due to uncontrolled and unmanageable release of ground water, the design of foundation of the sluice for the remaining part was modified substituting cut- off walls by Sheet Piles for which progress suffered during the year. On completion of the scheme, an area of 4000 ha of chronically drainage congested areas in Nalbari District of Assam will be benefited for agriculture. • Amjur Drainage Development Scheme
Techno-economic clearance of the scheme for an amount of Rs. 14.15 crore was received in January, 2006. The execution of Amjur DDS was taken up in the year 2006-07. Out of the two components i.e. sluice regulator and embankment, the work for ‘Raising and Strengthening’ of existing embankment was taken up first. The design of sluice was entrusted to CWC and the revised estimate as per approved design is under appraisal of CWC. The scheme will benefit an area of 7200 ha of drainage congested areas in Cachar District, Assam for agriculture. • Jengrai Drainage Development Scheme
Techno-economic clearance of the scheme for an amount of Rs. 1.49 crore was accorded in 2006. The scheme was taken up by Brahmaputra Board in 2006-07. Out of the two components i.e. sluice regulator and embankment, the work for ‘Raising and Strengthening’ of existing embankment was taken up first and completed. The DPR of the scheme was revised as per actual design of sluice for Rs. 5.23 crore. The overall physical progress of work under Jengrai DDS was 65% and during the year was 35% and expenditure during the year was Rs. 1.56 crore. The work was targeted to be completed by March 2019.On completion of the scheme, an area of 1400 ha would be benefited from drainage congestion.
• Demow Drainage Development Scheme
On accord of techno-economic clearance by CWC, the DPR of Demow Drainage Development Scheme was submitted to Government of Assam for implementation. However, Government of Assam requested Brahmaputra Board to take up the execution of the scheme. The detailed design and construction drawing of the sluice regulator has been done by Brahmaputra Board and the cost estimate of the scheme has been updated for Rs. 22.25 crore which was under techno-economic appraisal. The 65 th meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on 27 th March 2018 decided that further processing of clearance of DPR will be taken up only on receipt of complete NOC from State Government.
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The brief status in respect of 41 drainage congested areas is given below-
Sl. Name of Tributary / Area No. Drainage Sub-basin Basin affected State Status Scheme (sq.km) (As on 31.03.2018) I) Schemes cleared by CWC 1 Harang Barak Barak 242 Execution completed and 2 East of Beki-Manas Brahmaputra 180 handed over to WRD, Barpeta Aie. Government of Assam 3 Borbhag Pagladiya Brahmaputra 56 Assam Scheme is under execution 4 Amjur Barak Barak 52.5 Revised DPR under techno- economic appraisal. 5 Jengrai Subansiri Brahmaputra 18 Scheme is under execution 6 Jakaichuk Jhanji Brahmaputra 100 7 Kailashahar Manu Manu-deo 18 Tripura Execution suspended due to 8 Singla Barak Barak 322 Assam inability of State Government to provide requisite land 9 Rudrasagar Gumti Gumti 22 Tripura Handed over to State Government of Tripura for execution 10 Demow Disang Brahmaputra 226 Assam Handed over to Govt. of Assam for execution. However, as requested by state included in work programme of XII plan. Working DPR was sent to CWC for techno-economic clearan ce. IIT Guwahati was requested for consultancy of detailed design of sluice reg ulator. However, this will be pu rsued only after receipt of Mandatory requirement from State. 11 Kalamonijan Kopili Brahmaputra 100 Assam DPR Techno-econo mically (Jugijan & cleared. Assam Govt .was Lankajan) requested to issue NOC . 12 Nelli Kopili Brahmaputra 32 Assam Initially, WRD, Assam expressed its desire to execute the project. 65 th meeting of Board decided to obtain specific NOC before processing for clearance of DPR. Taken up with state govt. 13 Pola Pola Barak 71 Assam CWC accorded techno- 14 Depota Depota Brahmaputra 28.36 Assam economic clearance. II) Schemes under compliance of observations of CWC 1 Dharmanagar Juri Juri 20 Tripura Modified DPR submitted to CWC for techno-economic clearance. DPR re-submitted to CWC after compliance of the observation for TEC . 2 Larsing Barak Barak 35 Assam Under modification complying the observations of CWC. 3 Deroi Disang Brahmaputra 194 Assam DPR under preparation and at compilation stage
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III) Schemes under preparation of DPR / Awaited from Filed Office Laura- Buridehing Brahmaputra 300 Scheme is under formulation of Jamira- Brahmaputra Board. Field office 1 Assam Sessa asked to submit DPR
2 Punir Barak Barak 31 Under process of formulation of Assam the scheme on the basis of new field survey and investigation Ghiladhari Ghiladhari Brahmaputra 144 Joint field visit with State Govt. 3 Assam officials is proposed 4 Tingrai Buridehing Brahmaputra 11 Assam Field office asked to submit the status 5 Haria-Nanoi Nanoi Brahmaputra NA Assam Scheme is under formulation of Brahmaputra Board IV) Schemes under process of deletion 1 Konwarpur Demow Brahmaputra 112 Assam Under process of deletion 2 Badri Barak Barak 33 Assam 3 Mora- Dikrong Brahmaputra 26 Assam Dikrong 4 Sukhsagar Gumti Gumti 50 Tripura 5 Mora- Dikrong Brahmaputra 8 Assam Pichalamukh 6 Pakania Ranganadi Brahmaputra 16 Assam 7 Namdang Dikhow Brahmaputra 10 Assam 8 Sisapathar Dikrong Brahmaputra 12 Assam 9 Gelabil Bhogdoi Brahmaputra 5 Assam 10 West of Beki- Brahmaputra 23 Assam Barpeta Manas-Aie 11 Ghagra Barak Barak 65 Assam 12 Bherekibeel Maridhal Brahmaputra Assam 13 Khatra Barnadi Brahmaputra 15 Assam 14 Batha Nanoi Brahmaputra 40 Assam V) Schemes already deleted 1 Joysagar Kopili- Brahmaputra 55 Assam Kalong Dropped on approval of Board rd 2 Rangsai Jinjiram Brahmaputra 147 Assam in 53 meeting of BB 3 Sessa Puthimari Brahmaputra 59 Assam
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During the year, 2017-18 the achievements made by Board in respect of preparation of Drainage Development Schemes are as under:-
DPRs of Depota, Dharmanagar, Pota Kolong and Larsing DDSs were under appraisal of CWC. Observations of CWC were attended. Depota DDS was cleared by CWC.
A pictogram of the status of Drainage Development Scheme is given at Annexure- IX.
3.3 ‘Survey and Investigation’ of Water Resources Projects 'Survey & Investigation' and Preparation of Detailed Project Reports
Brahmaputra Board took up 'Survey & Investigation' of 14 Multipurpose Projects in Brahmaputra and Barak Basin and in the south flowing rivers of Meghalaya .
3.3.1 Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) Completed
After 'Survey & Investigation' and completion of preparation of Detail Project Reports (DPRs) following projects were under commissioning by various Agencies –
Sl.No Project Implementing Agency/Organization/Government 1 Siang Dam Handed over to NHPC during the year 2000. NHPC informed that Project Siang Lower was handed over to M/s Jai Prakash Associates Ltd. on (3 dams) 31.03.2009. Siang Middle to M/s Reliance Energy Ltd. (REL) and Siang Upper, was allocated to M/s NHPC by Governm ent of Arunachal Pradesh in February 2009 for preparation of PF R. Further details on the progress of commissioning of these projects have not been received 2 Subansiri Dam Handed over to NHPC during the year 2000. As stated by NHPC the Project Lower Subansiri is targeted for completion by 2017. Subansiri (3 dams) Middle and Subansiri Upper were handed over to M/s Jindal Power Ltd. on 04.02.2011. Further details on progress of commissioning of these projects have not been received 3 Tipaimukh Dam Handed over to NEEPCO and subsequently handed over to NHPC Project from NEEPCO 4 Pagladiya Dam The work of Pagladiya Dam Project under execution by Project Brahmaputra Board has been abandoned due to non-completion of zirat survey by Government of Assam 5 Bair abi Dam Handed to Government of Mizoram, who allotted the work of Project execution for Bairabi Dam Project to M/s Sikaria Power Ltd., Kolkata on 10.08.2012. It has been intimated by Government of Mizoram that Bairabi Dam Project will be completed in seven years.
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The following four Water Resources Projects located in Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya after partial completion of 'Survey & Investigation' by Brahmaputra Board were handed over to other Agency / State Government for completion of the balance Survey & Investigation works and subsequent commissioning.
Sl. No. Name of Project Implementing Agency National Hydroelectric Power 1. Dibang Dam project Corporation Lohit Dam Pr oject (On completion of 2. Government of Arunachal Pradesh 'Survey & Investigation') 3. Kynshi Stage-I Dam project Government of Meghalaya 4. Kynshi Stage-II Dam project Government of Meghalaya
3.3.3 All technical chapters of the Detailed Project Reports of following 2 (two) Projects were cleared by CWC and CEA
Sl.No. Name of Project Location 1. Kulsi Multipurpose Project Assam on border with Meghalaya Declared as 2. Noa-Dehing Dam Project Arunachal Pradesh National Project
3.3.4 Projects under ‘Survey & Investigation’ and formulation of Detailed Project Reports
The following five Water Resources Projects were presently under 'Survey & Investigation'/preparation of DPR in Brahmaputra Board-
Sl.No. Name of Project Location 1. Simsang Dam Project Meghalaya 2.. Jiadhal Dam Project Assam on border with Arunachal Pradesh 3. Killing Dam Project Assam Meghalaya border
• Kulsi Multipurpose Project
The project site is located about 1.5 Km downstream of Ukium, a border village of Assam and Meghalaya. Brahmaputra Board took up the survey and investigation work of Kulsi M.P. project in the year 1997. The installed capacity of the project is estimated as 55 M.W. with a gross command area of about 26000 ha. This project has been declared as a ‘National Project’ by Government of India. All chapters of the DPR was cleared by CEA & CWC. The Assam Government was requested to take over the project for implementation.
• Noa-Dehing Dam Project
The Project site is located about 4 Km upstream of Miao Town in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh. The investigation of this project was started in December, 1996. The installed capacity of the project is estimated at 72 MW. This project also
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declared as a ‘National Project’. All chapters of the DPR was cleared by CEA & CWC.The Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh was requested to take over the project for implementation.
• Simsang (Someswari) Multipurpose project
The project is located on the Simsang river with the dam site at Rongkhandi near Nangwalbibra Township under East Garo Hills District of Meghalaya. The survey and investigation work of this project was taken up during the year 1997. The tentative installed capacity of this project is estimated as 65 MW.
Present status-
o Topographical survey mostly completed o Pre-feasibility report prepared o Geological investigation in progress - 26 bore holes completed in dam area o Construction material survey completed o Two alternate layouts of water conductor system have been proposed by the Board and submitted to the CWC for finalization of one of the alternatives for further investigation.
It was decided to complete the remaining works of Survey & Investigation and DPR preparation through outsourcing due to acute shortage of manpower in the middle and higher level of the Engineering cadre in Brahmaputra Board. Accordingly, decision was taken to entrust the remaining work to WAPCOS.
• Jiadhal Dam Project
Jiadhal Dam project is located about 5 Km upstream of Jiadhalmukh in Assam- Arunachal Border area. Investigation of this project was taken up in November, 2002. The installed capacity of the project is estimated at 70 MW (tentative). CWC Design Team has been requested for a field visit to finalize the layout and other project parameters of the project.
Present status-
o Topographical survey in progress o Geological investigation in progress o Construction materials survey in progress o EIA& EMP studies are in progress o Two alternate layouts of the project have been proposed by the Board and submitted to the CWC for finalization of one of the alternatives. o It was decided to complete the remaining works of Survey & Investigation and DPR preparation through outsourcing due to acute shortage of manpower in the middle and higher level of the Engineering cadre in Brahmaputra Board. Accordingly, decision taken to entrust the remaining work to WAPCOS.
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The project site is located at Assam-Meghalaya Border on river Killing. Brahmaputra Board started survey &investigation of this project in November, 2003. The installed capacity of the project is estimated at 85 MW. The target for completion of the DPR of this project is 2017-18.
Present status- The design team of CWC visited project sites of Killing MP Project on 20th December, 2009 and reviewed the proposed layout. It was suggested by the CWC to carry out optimization studies based on tentative costs at different dam heights for finalization of the project parameters. Accordingly, the studies have been carried out and submitted to CWC for vetting. CWC has broadly agreed to the proposal submitted by the Board and suggested some additional studies/investigations. The additional studies/investigations are in progress.
At present, hydrological studies and drilling works for preparation of DPR are in progress and lay out plan of the project is under finalization.
o It was decided to handover the project to NEEPCO for DPR preparation and subsequent implementation due to acute shortage of manpower in the middle and higher level of the Engineering cadre in Brahmaputra Board.
A pictogram of the status is given at Annexure- X.
3.3.4 Survey & Investigation of Mini Hydel Projects
The Brahmaputra Board has taken up the following 3 (three) Mini Hydel projects in Meghalaya for ‘Survey & Investigation’ and preparation of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs)-
Sl. Name of Project Status 1 Myntang Mini Hydel Project (20 MW) Survey & Investigation continued 2 Umkhen Stage-I Mini Hydel Project (5 MW) Survey & Investigation discontinued from 3 Umkhen Stage-II Mini Hydel Project (4 MW) May, 2015
During August, 2012 a team of geologists headed by the Director, Engineering Geology Division, NER, Shillong visited the dam sites and approved the feasibility of all the three project sites prima-facie. They have suggested for some more topographical and river survey works for further studies. Hydrological and Preliminary Power Potential Studies in respect of these projects were carried out till April 2015. After April 2015, preparation of DPRs of only Myntang Mini Hydel project continued.
As decided in case of Jiadhal and Simsang, it was also decided to examine DPR preparation through outsourcing.
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3.4 Construction Activities 3.4.1 Pagladiya Dam Project
This project meant for flood moderation to benefit an area of 40000 ha, irrigation to 54,160 ha and incidental power generation of 3 MW, is proposed across Pagladiya River at Thalkuchi in Baksa District which falls under Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) in Assam. The project envisages construction of 25 m high and 21 km long earth dam with a concrete spillway. The Government of India had sanctioned the project in January, 2001 at an estimated cost of Rs. 542.90 crore for construction by Brahmaputra Board. • Works carried out since 2001 • Pre-construction survey, investigations, studies, design, drawings etc. • Taking possession of land (956 ha) for Resettlement & Rehabilitation (R&R) purpose • Construction of project roads, offices, etc. • Preparation of technical specifications & tender document • Pre-qualification of contractors for main works Out of 3238 ha of land required for execution of Pagladiya Dam Project, 956 ha of land acquired by Government of Assam was made available to Brahmaputra Board. Due to inability of Government of Assam to acquire the balance 2282 ha of land for R&R purpose, the work was held up and as per decision of 53 rd Meeting of Brahmaputra Board; all activities were closedw. e. f. 31 st May 2013. The Government of Assam was requested to take over and make necessary arrangement for protection of 956 ha of land from unauthorized occupation. 26 personnel engaged for watch and ward of 956 ha of land have been disengaged from 1 st June 2013 and no expenditure incurred by Board since then.
3.4.2 Construction of Raised Platforms On request from State Government of Assam, Brahmaputra Board has completed construction of 18 raised platforms at different locations to facilitate logistic support during flood for humans and livestock. Another raised platform at Satrakanara area in Barpeta District, Assam was under execution. During 2017-18, 55% of progress was achieved in execution of the raised platform with overall 91.24% progress upto March 2018.
In the report of performance evaluation study carried out through an independent agency, it has been advocated to construct more raised platforms for shelter of marooned people during floods. As per decision of 65 th meeting of Brahmaputra Board, NDMA was requested to keep the Brahmaputra Board in the loop for assisting NDMA for implementation of such schemes in North Eastern Region.
The list of places / locations of Raised Platforms constructed by Brahmaputra Board is as under-
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3.4.3 North Eastern Hydraulic and Allied Research Institute (NEHARI)
North Eastern Hydraulic and Allied Research Institute (NEHARI) was established in the year 1996 under Brahmaputra Board, as a follow up ‘Assam Accord’ inked on 15th August, 1985 in presence of then, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, late Shri Rajiv Gandhi. The Institute is situated ina sprawling campus of 44 ha at Rudreswar in North Guwahati at a distance of 25 km from the main city, far from the madding crowd, on the hillock in a conducive ambience. The Institute was set up as pioneer laboratory of North Eastern Region for laboratory testing of soil, rock, concrete and construction materials for development of water resources and other projects. The Institute has adequate facility for simulating and understanding river behavior through physical models.
Mandate
Undertaking field and laboratory investigations, research and development work of basic and applied types in 'Geo-mechanics', 'Concrete Technology', 'Soil Characteristics', 'Construction Materials' and associated issues for development of hydropower, irrigation and flood control projects.
Activities
o Hydraulic Physical Model Testing for erosion problem study &river training o Soil mechanics o Rock mechanics o Concrete technology
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NEHARI has patronage of Central Soil and Material Research station (CSMRS), New Delhi and Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), Pune – Internationally reorganized apex institutes in the field of laboratory testing of soil construction materials and development of physical and mathematical models in the field of water resources. Experts/technical hands of NEHARI have initially been imparted training on the subject by both the above mentioned premier institutes. During a short span of time, since its inception, NEHARI has successfully completed laboratory testing of soil and materials during investigation and also during execution of a number of projects in the water resources development.
Noteworthy among them are Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric Project, Middle Subansiri Hydro-electric Project, Lower Siang Project, Middle Siang Project, Dibang Dam Project, Laskar Mintu Project of Meghalaya, Tuirini, Tuipal and Kolodyne H.E. Project of Mizoram, Dikhu Hydel Project of Nagaland and others. Test reports prepared by NEHARI have been appreciated by CSMRS.
An Advisory Committee of NEHAR was constituted under the Chairmanship of Chairman, Brahmaputra Board with members from CWPRS, CSMRS, CGWB, IITG, WAPCOS, NERIWALAM& NWA-Pune to govern the functions of NEHARI. 1st meeting of Advisory Committee of NEHARI was held on 06.10.2017. Board also signed an MoU with NERIWALAM to utilize the infrastructures of NEHARI for organizing training by NERIWALAM.
3.5 Flood Management and Anti-erosion Schemes (Implementation of Anti-erosion Measures)
3.5.1 Anti-erosion Measures Completed
Brahmaputra Board has successfully completed the following anti-erosion measures in Assam Meghalaya and Nagaland –
a. Avulsion of Brahmaputra at Dholla Hatghuli (Renamed as Restoration of rivers Dibang and Lohit to their original courses) – Phase – I, Phase-II, Phase-III and Phase-IV b. Protection of Majuli Island from flood and erosion- Immediate measure, Phase-I, Emergent measures and Phase-II & III c. Protection of Nagrijuli, Rangia Town, Mukalmua and Barbhag area from floods and erosion of river Puthimari in Assam d. Protection of Balat Village from erosion of river Umngi, Meghalaya Part-I. e. Anti-Erosion measures to protect Kushiabil & Durgajan village in Dimapur of river Dhansiri(S) in Nagaland
On completion, the above schemes at Sl. No. c. and e. have been handed over to respective States for routine maintenance.
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Protection of Majuli from floods and erosion
Majuli is the largest inhabited river island in the world. It is situated between latitudes 26º45’N and 27º10’N, and longitudes between 93º40’E and 94º35’E. Majuli has been the cultural capital and the cradle of Assamese civilization since the 16 th century. Shrimanta Sankardeva, a pioneer of the medieval-age neo-vaishnavite movement, preached a monotheist form of Hinduism called as Vaishnavism and established monasteries and hermitages known as satras. The satras preserve antiques like weapons, utensils, jewellery and other items of cultural significance. The inhabitants of Majuli are mostly tribal - predominantly from the Mishing, Deori and Sonowal Kacharis tribes. Majuli is also famous for pottery.
Majuli Island has constantly been subjected to erosion by the mighty Brahmaputra. Responsibility for undertaking anti-erosion works for protection of Majuli Island was given to Brahmaputra Board in the year 1999. Physical activities on the ground started in the year 2004.
The total area of the land mass of Majuli Main Island was 502.21 sq km in the year 2004. Since the year 2004, with regular implementation of anti-erosion / bank protection measures by Brahmaputra Board, the total area of Majuli Island has increased to 524.29 sq km till the year 2016. Works under Phase-II &III were completed. Works - such as construction of 5 spurs, river bank revetments in 5 locations, closing of breach at Samahia-Ati, supplying &laying of permeable RCC porcupine screens/spurs/dampeners, construction of 5 raised platforms in low lying flood vulnerable areas, construction of nose of 2 check bunds, tie bunds at 2 locations and spur No. 2 had been completed.
Financial Implication
Expenditure incurred by Brahmaputra Board on undertaking measures for protection of Majuli Island from floods and erosion since January 2004 under various Phases is detailed below-
Sl. Description Estimated Actual Remarks No. Cost Expenditure (Rs. in crore) (Rs. in crore) 1 Immediate Measures 6.22 6.09 Completed (Year 2004-2005) 2 Phase- I 56.07 52.63 Completed (Years 2005-2011) 3 Emergent Measures 4.99 4.75 Completed (Year 2008) 4 Phase-II & Phase-III 115.99 127.48 Completed (March’18) Total 183.27 191.76
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Outcome
The following are the major achievements –
o Raising and Strengthening of 96.2 km of Embankment- Flood problem inside the embankment system curtained. Internal communication system has been improved.
o Prior to implementation of protection measures there was continuous loss of land of Majuli Island. Since implementation of protection measures by Brahmaputra Board trend of land loss got reversed. Particulars on net gain of land mass in Majuli Island are tabulated below –
Area of Majuli Island Net Area reclaimed Year (in sq km) (in sq km) 2004 502.21 - 2008 506.37 4.16 2011 520.26 13.89 2013 522.73 2.47 2014 523.88 1.15 2016 524.29 0.41 Total land mass gained from 2004 to 2016 22.08
A new scheme “Protection of Majuli Island from flood and erosion of river Brahmaputra” has been approved by Government of India for Rs. 233.57 crore. Ministry of DoNER funded Rs. 207 crore under NLCPR for implementation of the scheme. Work amounting to Rs. 160.75 crore was allotted in November 2017.The Hon’ble Union Minister of Water Resources laid Foundation Stone of the scheme on 29 th December 2017 and 1.39% progress was achieved during the year.
• Avulsion of Brahmaputra at Dhola-Hatighuli (Restoration of Dibang and Lohit Rivers to their original courses)
Avulsion of left bank of River Lohit occurred in 1989, at confluence of Lohit with Dibang - near Dhola-Hatighuli located in Dumdooma, Civil Sub-division of Tinsukia district due to breach in Saikhowa Bund. The scheme “Avulsion of Brahmaputra at Dhola-Hatighuli (Measures for diversion of River Dibang to its original course) with ancillary anti-erosion measures” prepared by Government of Assam was approved by Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India in the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting held in May, 2002 and the Brahmaputra Board was entrusted with the responsibility for execution of the scheme. Total expenditure of Rs 78.46 crore has so far been incurred by Brahmaputra Board on execution of works envisaged under Phase-I, Phase-II, Phase-III and Phase-IV as detailed below:
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Annual Report: 2017-18 (Rs. in crore) Sl. Description Estimated Actual Status No. Cost Expenditure 1 Phase-I (January 2003 to July 2004) 10.47 8.87 Completed 2 Phase- II (January 2004 to July 2004) 5.22 4.54 Completed 3 Phase-III(March 2007 to July 2007) 8.47 8.46 Completed 4 Phase-IV (2009-10 to 2015-16) 54.43 56.59 Completed Total 78.59 78.46
Outcome • With construction of 'Tie-Bund', the lands which earlier used to form part of main channel of Dibang River are now completed protected from floods and erosion. The inhabitants of deserted areas have returned back and restarted cultivation in a big way.
• On construction of retirement bund at Hatighuli area on Left bank of Lohit river, 11 villages under Doomduma Revenue Circle in an area of about 1500 ha got protection from floods from 2004 onwards. Plan Ahead:
Based upon the recommendations of 8 th visit of Standing Committee of Experts DPR of Phase –V was under appraisal of CWC for techno-economic clearance. CWC observed that model studies of works proposed in Phase-V to be carried out. A part of the work proposed under Phase-V for Conversion of the existing tie bund across the spill channel of river Dibang in to a full-fledged embankment at Bahbari and construction of new embankment -Part-A of Phase – V was proposed to implement in 2017-18 separately as per recommendation of TAC-BB was in final stage of techno- economic clearance of CWC. • Protection of Balat Village in Meghalaya on River Umngi : Part-I of scheme amounting Rs. 5.63 crore was taken up for implementation and was completed in January 2016. Works envisaged under Phase-I with financial implication of Rs. 4.82 crore were completed.
The DPR for Phase-II works for Rs. 12.87 crore was under final stage of techno- economic clearance of CWC. • Anti-erosion works for protection of Mankachar, Kalair-Alga International Border area from erosion of river Brahmaputra, Assam -
Mankachar, Kalair-Alga International Border area is located on the south bank of river Brahmaputra in South Salmara, Mankachar District on the westernmost border of Assam. The area is subjected to severe erosion of river Brahmaputra threatening the existing IBB link road, border fencing and border road as well as adjoining vast area of Hatsingimari town. Scheme of Rs 23.79 crore was taken up for implementation.
Original scheme of Rs 23.79 crore was modified due to ban on extraction of boulder by Hon’ble High Court of Meghalaya for Rs. 20.25 crore substituting boulders by Geobag. Status of implementation was as under-
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• Anti-erosion measure in Masalabari area near International Border in Assam –
Due to poor response of tenderer led for repeated retendering for implementation for which commencement of execution was delayed.
(i) Supplying and laying of RCC porcupine screens- Work commenced on 16.02.2018 and 21% progress achieved (ii) In the Bank revetment works 54.26% of progress achieved up to March, 2018
• Anti-erosion measures for bank protection of Bhajaner Cherra, Nishiganj area under Cooch Behar Block No. II along the left bank of River Mansai in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal
(i) The DPR of the scheme modified substituting boulder item by geobag (ii) Administrative Approval and Expenditure Sanction was accorded
• Bank protection work at Bhogdebri area on the Right Bank of River Mansai in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal
(iii) The DPR of the scheme modified substituting boulder item by geobag (iv) Administrative Approval and Expenditure Sanction was accorded.
Anti-erosion Schemes proposed to be executed beyond the XII Five Year Plan i.e. from 2017-18 to 2019-2020
o Protection of Majuli Island from Flood & erosion Phase -II & III-Balance work o Protection of Majuli Island from flood and erosion of river Brahmaputra Rs. 233.57 crore o Development of Infrastructures of Brahmaputra Board for carry out the Work of protection of Majuli Island o Restoration of Dibang and Lohit rivers to their original courses Phase-V o Restoration of rivers Dibang and Lohit to their original courses Phase-V - Conversion of the existing tie bund across the spill channel of river Dibang in to a full-fledged embankment at Bahbari and construction of new embankment -Part-A of Phase - V o Protection of Balat village from erosion of river Umngi in South West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya -Phase-II o Anti-erosion measures for protection of areas under severe erosion in Kalair Alga of Mankachar in Assam near International Border from erosion of river Brahmaputra:
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3.6 Monitoring of Schemes under Flood Management Programme of Government of India
The Brahmaputra Board is entrusted with monitoring of scheme under Flood Management Programme in respect of entire North Eastern Region including Sikkim and part of West Bengal falling under Brahmaputra Basin since X Plan. Details of scheme undertaken by Government of India under Flood Management Programme and monitored by Brahmaputra Board is shown below –
During X Plan
Sl. Name of State Nos of schemes Central Grant released No. (Rs. in crore) 1 Assam 44 78.8182 2 Arunachal Pradesh 7 16.3755 3 Manipur 4 7.911 4 Mizoram 3 6.1980 5 Tripura 7 12.7635 6 Meghalaya 2 2.635 7 Nagaland 1 3.897 8 Sikkim 3 8.595 9 West Bengal 3 9.01 Total 74 146.2032
During XI Plan
Sl. No. Name of State Nos of schemes Central Grant released (Rs. in crore) 1 Assam 100 744.901 2 Arunachal Pradesh 21 78.7705 3 Manipur 22 65.0315 4 Mizoram 2 3.4025 5 Tripura 11 20.91115 6 Meghalaya 0 0 7 Nagaland 11 28.965 8 Sikkim 28 82.859 9 West Bengal 6 13.394 Total 201 1038.235
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Scheme undertaken by Government of India during X, XI, XII Plan under Flood Management Programme and monitored by Brahmaputra Board is shown below –
Plan No of Central assistance Remarks schemes (Rs in crore)
X Plan 74 146.20 Rs.25,342 crore for spill over schemes of X XI Plan 201 1063.58 plan + Rs.1038.235 crore for XII plan schemes Rs. 141.8966 crore for spill over schemes of XI XII Plan 61 197.27 Plan+ Rs. 55.3715 cr. for XII Plan schemes Rs. 21.1753 crore for spill over schemes of XI Beyond XII Plan 266.67 Plan + Rs. 245.49427 cr. for XII Plan schemes
3.7 Review of the Brahmaputra Board Act 1980
Hon’ble Union Minister, Water Resources, RD & GR stressed the need for restructuring of Brahmaputra Board to make it more effective and efficient. Earnest efforts to restructure Brahmaputra Board were made by Government of India. Initial move was to restructure Brahmaputra Board into a Basin Authority and then subsequently into a Corporation. While these exercises were continuing, the Ministry undertook a new move to restructure the Brahmaputra Board within the ambit of the “Brahmaputra Board Act, 1980”. Extensive exercise was conducted by the Ministry involving the top water resources experts in the country with the aim to make Brahmaputra Board administratively and operationally more efficient. The Ministry has come out with a robust proposal to restructure the Brahmaputra Board by revamping of its technical and non-technical cadres within the ambit of Brahmaputra Board Act, 1980. To discuss this restructuring proposal, the 63 rd Special Meeting has been convened on 11.04.2017. Based on this, MoWR, RD and GR recommended the proposal which was approved by Finance Ministry. The proposal was approved in the 9th meeting of High Powered Review Board of Brahmaputra Board held on 30.12.2017 at Kaziranga, Assam.
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Chapter – IV
Non-field Activities of Brahmaputra Board during the year 2017-18
4.1 Complaint Committee on Sexual Harassment and Gender Justice
In pursuance of the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s order passed in connection with the writ petition (Criminal) No.666-70 of 1992 in the case of Visakha - Vs - State of Rajasthan and others, a Complaint Mechanism to deal with such cases in the Board was constituted with seven Committee Members including a Chairperson and Member Secretary. The Committee came into force from 31.12.1997.
During the year the committee did not hold any meeting as there was no complaint from any employee.
4.2 Vigilance and Disciplinary Cases
Board has a vigilance wing headed by a Superintending Engineer as Chief Vigilance Officer with Executive Engineer (Vigilance), one Asstt. Executive Engineer (Vig.) and one Jr. Engineer (Vig.). The break-up of vigilance / disciplinary cases in respect of different categories of officers and staff is given below-
Table Showing Vigilance and Disciplinary Cases during the year 2017-18 (As on 31.03.18)
Sl. Category of Officer/staff No. Particulars of cases Group ‘A’ Group ‘B’ Group ‘C’ 1 No. of cases pending in the 06 02 Nil beginning of the year 2 No. of cases added during the year 0 0 Nil
3 No. of cases disposed during the year 01 01 Nil
4 No. of cases pending at the 05 01 Nil end of the year
4.2.1 Vigilance Week
Brahmaputra Board observed the Vigilance Awareness Week 2017 from 30.10.2017to 04.11.2017. During the Vigilance Week, some activities were performed by displaying banners & posters in prime locations and organizing (i) Essay completion, (ii) Drawing & Painting competition and (iii) Debate competition on vigilance matter along with open session.
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4.3.1 The list of Officers / Officials deputed for training and those participated in Seminar/ Symposium / Workshop / Training during the year 2017-18 is furnished at Annexure-V.
4.3.2 The list of officers on deputation /Loan to other organization during the year 2017-18 is furnished at Annexure-VI
4.4 PROGRESSIVE USE OF OFFICIAL LANGUAGE, HINDI
1. Hindi Fortnight celebration : With a view to promote the Official Language Hindi in the official activities and to create an congenial atmosphere of Hindi amongst the officers and staff of the Board, Hindi Fortnight was celebrated in the Board HQ, Guwahati from 8th September to 22 nd September 2017 in the Board’s HQ at Guwahati. On the occasion, 10 nos. competitions in Hindi viz,- Tippan/Aalekhan, Noting/Drafting, Computer Tangkan, Kavita Aavriti, Shrutlekhan, Ashu Bhashan, Ashu pathan, Ashu lekhan, Prasnottari, Nibandh lekhan, Sulekhan etc. were organized and participants were given cash prizes. Total Rs.13,200/- were given for the events. On the occasion, Brahmaputra Board awarded cash prizes to 3 offices under the Board for their outstanding implementation of OL Hindi. The amount of cash prizes were Rs.3000/- 1st prize, Rs. 2000/- 2nd prize and Rs.1000/-3rd prize.
Hindi day was celebrated in all field offices of the Board in different dates between 8 th to 22 nd September 2017.
2. Hindi Correspondence: The Board achieved an overall target of progress upto 43.81% during the year which is declined 14.6% in comparison to 58.41% of the last year in originating correspondence in Hindi. Keeping in view the declined progress, various measures were adopted to increase the progress in a regular way. The Board also suggested all concerned to take all possible follow up actions to achieve the prescribed target in this regard.
3. Hindi Workshop : Concerted efforts were made for successful implementation of the Official Language Policy of the Govt. of India and to create awareness amongst the employees to execute their skill in using Hindi in office work 4(four) Hindi Workshops were organized during the year as mentioned below :
Date Training Hours Number of nomination Number participated
02.06.2017 6 Hrs. 20 16
08.08.2017 3 Hrs. 26 26
27.12.2017 6 Hrs. 17 10
27.03.2018 6 Hrs. 20 13
Total 21 Hrs. 83 nos. 65 nos.
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5. Training in Hindi: During the year 8 employees have passed Hindi Pragya training course and they have been given one year increment in the form of personal pay and also awarded Rs. 2400/- (each) cash as cash award. During the session January to May 2018 Board established a part time training centre in HQ and nominated 24 employees to the Parangat course. The training held regularly.
6. Seminar on the Official Language Hindi: Asstt. Director (OL), Brahmaputra Board represented the Brahmaputra Board and presented paper in the seminar on the topic of ‘Global village mein Rajbhasha Hindi ka safar” organized by the Town Official Language Implementation Committee (PSU) held on 23.03.2018 at Guwahati Refinery.
7. Meeting of the Official Language Implementation Committee (OLIC): The OLIC meeting of the Brahmaputra Board met 3 (three) times during the year i. e. on 02.06.2017, 08.08.2017, 27.12.2017 & 27.03.2018. Review of the progressive use of Official Language Hindi in the HQ as well as field offices were made and measures were identified for the effective implementation of Hindi. Sub Committee’s meeting were also organized in field offices.
8. Hindi Inspection: To oversee the implementation of OL Hindi, following Subordinate field offices where the working in Hindi was below the performance level were also inspected by the HQ office during the year. All suggestive measures were given to speed up the implementation of OL Hindi.
Sl. No. Date of Name of Office inspection 1 12.05.2017 O/o Executive Enginee r, Lakhimpur Division., North Lakhimpur 2 22.11.2017 O/o Executive Engineer, Nagaon Division, Nagaon 3 25.01.2018 Jalpaiguri Division, Jalpaiguri, North Bengal 4 12.02.2018 O/o Executive Enginee r, Lakhimpur Division, North Lakhimpur 5 27.02.2018 O/o Executive Engineer, Nalbari Division, Nalbari 6 27.02.2018 O/o Superintending Engineer, Nalbari Circle, Nalbari
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The Citizen’s Charter in respect of Brahmaputra Board has been prepared and uploaded in the official website www.brahmaputraboard.gov.in
4.6 Implementation of Right to Information Act 2005 (RTI)
In pursuance of the Government of India, MoWR letter No. 31/15/2004-IT/B&B/200 dated. 22.12.2005, the Right to Information Act, 2005 had been introduced in Brahmaputra Board on 31.12.2005. After introduction of the Right to Information Act- 2005, the Brahmaputra Board had notified all relevant information pertaining to Brahmaputra Board and also published the same in its website as a part of administration and implementation of the Act. The information in the website is being updated from time to time complying the directives and provision of the Right to Information Act - 2005.
The Annual Return Information System for the year, 2017-18 is at Annexure-VII.
4.7 Observance of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and Mass Awareness Activities under Tribal Sub-Plan for Water Conservation during the year 2017-18.
The Prime Minister of India had given a call for “Swachh Bharat” as a mass movement to realize Gandhiji’s dream of a clean India by the 150 th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in 2019. Brahmaputra Board had participated in the “Swachh Bharat Mission” (Clean India campaign) and taken action as follows – A) During the year 2017-18, Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan was observed in the Brahmaputra Board by organizing and observing following programme:-
(a) Cleaning of Water Bodies was done during the period 16 th to 31 st march 2018
S N o. Water Bodies Locations District 1 Pond within the Assam Jalukbari, Guwahati Kamrup Engineering College campus at Jalukbari 2 Hatkhola Pond, Nalbari Nalbari Nalbari 3 Tinikunia Pukhuri, Gopalbazar, Gopalbazar, Nalbari Nalbari Nalbari 4 Arnabeel, Sibbari, Silchar Sibari, Silchar Cachar 5 Sankar Misson Pond Nagaon Nagaon 6 Khalihamari Pond Khalihamari, Dibrugarh Dibrugarh 7 Subansiri Sevashram Pond, Khelmati, Lakhimpur Lakhimpur Khelmati, Lakhimpur 8 Pond at Natun Kamalabari Majuli Majuli Satra, Majuli
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म यालयु प रसर क सफाइ CLEAING AT HEAD QUARTERS COLONY
असम अ भयां क महा ब यालय, जालकबार ,ु गवाहाट ु म जल नकाय पोखर क सफाई CLEANING OF WATER BODY POND AT ASSAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE CAMPUS, JALUKBARI, GUWAHATI
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असम अ भयां क महा ब यालय , जालकबार ु , गवाहाट ु म जल नकाय पोखर क सफाई CLEANING OF WATER BODY POND AT ASSAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE CAMPUS, JALUKBARI, GUWAHATI
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Chapter – V
Activities on Persons with Disabilities
[ The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995] 5.1 Implementation of various provisions on persons with disabilities
The physically challenged persons are given facilities, concession and relaxation at the time of test / interview as per rules. The relevant rosters as prescribed by the Government are also maintained for indicating the reservation of disabled persons. 3% of posts / vacancies (1% each for orthopedic, blind &hearing handicapped) are reserved to be filled up from physically handicapped persons. The recruitment of physically challenged is under process for fulfillment of three percent quota by Brahmaputra Board. Periodic reports on the progress achieved are being sent regularly to the MoWR, RD&GR. The Brahmaputra Board is looking forward for improving the existing facilities / concessions available to the disabled persons. Board is ready to give preference to products / manufactures of disabled persons for its official uses whenever such products come to the notice of Board’s authority. 5.2 The details of sanctioned posts and the number of persons with disabilities in various posts in group ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’ against 3% vacancies are as below - As on 31.03.2018 Sl. Group of Sanctioned Post rese rved Present Remarks. No. posts Strength for disabled position persons There is no direct recruitment 1 Group ‘A’ 82 Nil Nil post in Group – A. The total direct recruitment 2 Group ‘B’ 190 4 Nil post of Group – B is 141 3 Group ‘C’ The total direct recruitme nt 356 8 6 post of Group – C is 255 Total 628 12 6
Establishment – Administration
The sanctioned and filled positions as on 31.03.2018 in Brahmaputra Board are furnished in the following table –
Sl. No. Post Sanctioned Post filled Post vacant Post up 1. Group – A 82 27 55 2. Group – B 190 128 62 3. Group- C 356 189 167
Total 628 344 284
Detail status of the above list is shown in the enclosed Annexure -IV
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Chapter- VI
Meeting during the year 2017-18
Important Meetings of the Brahmaputra Board 6.1 Meetings of Brahmaputra Board 6.1.1 High Powered Review Board: 6.1.1.1 9th Meeting of High Powered Review Board of Brahmaputra Board:
The 9 th meeting of High Powered Review Board (HPRB) of Brahmaputra Board was held on 30 th June, 2017 at Kaziranga, Assam under Chairmanship of Hon’ble Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development & Ganaga Rejuvenation.
Important Decision taken by HPRB:
• Confirmation of the Minutes of 8th Meeting of HPRB of Brahmaputra Board at New Delhi on 19.6.2015 • Ratified the decision to implement the scheme “Protection of Majuli Island from flood and erosion of river Brahmaputra Board” funded by MoDoNER Rs. 207 crore • Rratified all the decisions of 63 rd Specialmeeting of Brahmaputra Board held on 11 th April, 2017 • Approved restructuring of Brahmaputra Board and advised that funds should be largely spent for works and establishment costs have to be optimised • Agreed to drop the proposal to convert Brahmaputra Board into an Authority or Corporation • Approved the establishment of Brahmaputra Board office complex in Majuli and entrust the works to NPCC, a PSU under the Ministry • Approved that the preparation of Master Plans, Feasibility Reports and DPRs for development of the complete Brahmaputra basin be also given to WAPCOS, a PSU under the Ministry, who may partner with leading global organizations working in the field of integrated water management
6.1.2 Brahmaputra Board Meeting:
The 63 rd Special, 64 th and 65 th (adjourned) meetings of Brahmaputra Board were held during the year 2017-18. The 63rd special meeting was held on 11 th April, 2017, 64 th meeting was held on 29.06.2017 and 65 th (adjourned) meeting was held on 27 th March 2018 at Brahmaputra Board HQ, Guwahati.
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Important decisions taken by Brahmaputra Board:
6.1.2.1 63rd Special meeting;
Confirm the Minutes of 62nd meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on30.01.2017 at Guwahati. Recommend the detail Proposal of Restructuring of Brahmaputra Board with 9 Regional Offices and re-organizing the engineering cadre to a pyramidal structure. Recommend to restructure the Post of Chief Engineer -II To develop Infrastructure of Brahmaputra Board to accommodate Office and residence of employees
6.1.2.2 64th meeting:
• Confirmation of the Minutes of 63rd Special meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on11.04.2017 at Guwahati, Assam
• Ratification of the decision of 58 th Meeting of Standing Committee of Brahmaputra Board
• Approval of Annual Accounts of Brahmaputra Board for the year 2016-17
• Approval of Annual Report of Brahmaputra Board for the year 2016-17
• Approved Master Plan of Jaldhaka
• To recommend drop the proposal to Convert Brahmaputra Board into an Authority or Corporation
• Approved to accord a MOU with Deltares, Netherlands on “joint interest in the development of a long-term scientific and technical cooperation in the field of water resources, river basin management, in Brahmaputra Basin and other river basins under the jurisdiction of Brahmaputra Board in North Eastern Region of India (herein after referred as the ‘Region’) disaster risk reduction and others in order to increase the exchange of information, knowledge, technology and scientific and applied experience, as well as implementation of joint projects”.
6.1.2.3 65 th meeting:
• Confirmation of the Minutes of 64th Meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on 29 th June, 2017 at Guwahati, Assam
• Ratification of the decision/approval of 59th Meeting of Standing Committee of Brahmaputra Board
• Approved Master Plan of Tangani, Teesta, Torsa and Simsang
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• Awarding consultancy to WAPCOS for remaining works of investigation and preparation of DPR of Multipurpose Projects
• Preparation of flood control and anti – erosion schemes through WAPCOS for all rivers in BTAD area
6.1.3 Standing Committee Meeting
The 58th and 59th meetings of Standing Committee of Brahmaputra Board were held during the year 2017-18. The 58th meeting of Standing Committee of Brahmaputra Board was held on 21.06.2017 at Conference Hall, Brahmaputra Board, Basistha, Guwahati and the 59th meeting of Standing Committee of Brahmaputra Board was held on 26.12.2017 at Conference Hall, Brahmaputra Board, Basistha, Guwahati. The decision / approval of the 58th and 59th meetings of Standing Committee of Brahmaputra Board were ratified in the 64 th and 65 th meeting of Brahmaputra Board, respectively.
Important decisions of Standing Committee:
6.1.3.1 58th meeting:
(a) Action Plan of Brahmaputra Board for the year 2017-18
(b) Budget Estimate of Brahmaputra Board for the year 2017-18
(c) Approved Estimates for –
i. 3rd Revised estimate for Survey and Investigation of Killing (Umiam) M.P. Project
ii. R&M of various assets of Brahmaputra Board for the year 2017-18
6.1.3.2 59th Meeting:
Development of Infrastructure of Brahmaputra Board at Majuli
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6.2 Important meetings/events attended by Chairman, Brahmaputra Board during the year 2017-18 are:
Sl. Meetings / events Attended by No 1. One day Conference on “Sediment Management in Indian Rivers” Chairman held on 17.3.2017 at CSMRS Auditorium, New Delhi 2. Attended 63rd Special meeting of Brahmaputra Board h eld on Chairman 11.04.2017 at Guwahati 3. Attended 58th Standing Committee meeting of Brahmaputra Board Chairman held on 21.06.2017 at Guwahati 4. Attended 64th meeting of Brahmaputra Board held 29.6.2018 Chairman 5. Meeting undertaken by Chairman with Senior officers of Chairman Brahmaputra Board on various issues pertaining to Brahmaputra Board on 28.8.17 at Guwahati 6. Meeting undertaken by Chairman with Senior officers of Chairman Brahmaputra Board on various issues pertaining to Brahmaputra Board on 23.09.17 at Guwahati 7. Meeting taken on formulation of Action Plan in respect of point Chairman No.20.13 of the minutes of Review meeting held on 16.09.2016 to review the implementation status of Bodo Accord on 5.10.2017 at Office chamber of JS(PP), MoWR, RD&GR, New Delhi 8. Attended 1st meeting of Advisory Committee for NEHARI, Chairman Brahmaputra Board held on 6.10.2017 at Guwahati 9. Attended the meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Chairman Subordinate Legislative of Lok Sabha held on 30.10.2017 at Taj Vivanta, Guwahati 10. Presided over the 59th Standing Committee meeting of Chairman Brahmaputra Board held on 26.12.2017 at Guwahati 11. Attended in Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony of Protection of Chairman Majuli Island from Flood and erosi on & Construction of Brahmaputra Board at Majuli on 29.12.2017 12. Attended in 9th High Powered Review Board meeting of Chairman Brahmaputra Board held on 30.12.2017 at Borgos, Kaziranga, Assam 13. Visited Majuli and meeting taken with represent atives of M/s T.K. Chairman Engineer Pvt. Ltd and officers of Brahmaputra Board on 25.3.2018 14. Attended 65st (adjourned) meeting of Brahmaputra Board held on Chairman 27.3.2018 at Guwahati
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Chapter – VII
Annual Accounts and Audit
7.1 Statement of Accounts
The statements of annual accounts of Brahmaputra Board for the year 2017-18 are given in a tabular form at page no142 to 167 .in this chapter.
7.1.1 Audit: The position of audit objections raised by internal as well as external audit is furnished as under-
Position of Outstanding Audit Paras of Inspection Report of Internal Audit as on 31.03.2018
Sl Outstanding Para raised Para settled Balance as Name of the Office as on during the during the year on No 01.04.2017 year 2017-18 2017-18 31.03.2018
Guwahati Circle 0 7 4 3
Guwahati Division 5 10 10 5
Barak Valley Division 38 8 30 Agartala Division 1 1
Nagaon Division 3 5 8
Liaison Office 0 0
North Guwahati Circle 4 4
North Guwahati Division 7 7
Nalbari Circle 2 10 3 9 6 4 Nalbari Division 6 8
Jalpaiguri Division 2 2
Jorhat Circle 9 5 4 Lakhimpur Division 15 11 26 Majuli Division 9 9 Roing Division 8 8 Total 109 49 34 124
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Position of Outstanding Paras of PAG (Audit) & Principal Director of Audit as on 31.03.2018 Sl. Name of the Office Outstanding Para raised Para settled Balance as No para as on during the during the on 01.04.2017 year 2017-18 year 2017-18 31.3.2018 1 Head Quarter Office 32 11 11 32 2 Guwahati Circle 3 2 1 3 Guwahati Division 10 5 5 4 Barak Valley Division 51 2 49 5 Agartala Division 10 8 7 11 6 North Guwahati Circle 9 2 7
7 North Guwahati Division 23 7 16 8 Nagaon Division 8 4 4 9 Roing Division 23 10 11 22 10 Nalbari Circle 0 0 11 Nalbari Division 23 14 9 (&Rangia Division) 12 Jalpaiguri Division 19 2 17 13 Jorhat Circle 2 1 1 14 Lakhimpur Division 11 3 8 15 Majuli Division 15 1 14 16 Liaison Office 6 2 4
Total 245 29 74 200
Investment Pattern of Brahmaputra Board Contributory Provident Fund Trust Account as on 31.03.2018
Brahmaputra Board has invested the CPF amount conforming to Govt. Guidelines i.e. 5.66 % in Central Govt. Securities and 94.34 % in Govt. Financial institutions/Nationalized Banks. The Investment pattern of Brahmaputra Board CPF Trust for the year ended on31st March' 2018 is given below: Sl.No. Name of Organisation Amount Invested up to 31-3-2018 % of Investment 1 IDBI Bank Rs 4,80,39,000.00 6.81 2 Union Bank of India Rs 34,41,30,000.00 48.79 3 Syndicate Bank Rs 16,42,29,999.97 23.28 4 Bank of India Rs 1,98,00,000.00 2.81 5 NESF Bank Rs 1,00,00,000.00 1.42 6 Central Bank of India Rs 6,93,00,000.00 9.83 7 Allahabad Bank Rs 99,00,000.00 1.40 8 Nabard Rs 2,98,81,000.00 4.24 9 Govt. Loan/Bond Rs 1,00,00,000.00 1.42 Total Rs 70,52,79,999.97
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Government of India Ministry of Water Resources River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
ANNUAL ACCOUNTS 2017-18
BRAHMAPUTRA BOARD BASISTHA, GUWAHATI-29
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Separate Audit Report on the Accounts of the Brahmaputra Board, Guwahati, Assam
For the year 2017-18
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7.3 Separate Audit Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on the Accounts of Brahmaputra Board, Guwahati for the year ended 31 st March 2018
1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Brahmaputra Board Guwahati as at 31 March 2018 and the “Income and Expenditure Account/Receipts and Payment Account” for the year ended on that date under Section 19(2) of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (Duties, Power and Conditions of service) Act, 1971 read with Brahmaputra board Act, 1980 (No 46 of 1980). These financial Statements include the accounts of the Board and its 15 Division/Circle/Liaison office including Board. These financial statement are the responsibility of the Brahmaputra Board’s Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statement based on our audit.
2. This separate Audit Report contains the comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on the accounting treatment only with regard to classification conformity with the best accounting practices. Accounting standards and disclosure norms, etc. Audit observations on financial transactions with regard to compliance with the Law, Rules and Regulations (Propriety and Regularity) and efficiency-cum- performance aspects etc, if any are reported through Reports/CAG’s Audit Reports separately.
3. We have conducted our audit in accordance with the auditing standards generally accepted in India. These standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatements. An audit Includes examining, on a test basis, evidences supporting the amounts and disclosure in the financial statement. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
4. Based on our audit, we report that: i) We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit: ii) The Balance Sheet and Income and Expenditure Account/Receipt and Payment Account dealt with by this report have been drown up in the format approved by the ministry of Finance, New Delhi.
iii) In our opinion, proper books of accounts and other relevant records have been maintained by the Brahmaputra Board, Guwahati as required under Section 19(2) of the Brahmaputra Board Act in so far as it appears from our examination of such books.
iv) We further report that:
A. Balance Sheet A. 1 Liabilities
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As per Notes and Instruction for Schedules contained in Annexure-E of Uniform Format of Accounts, amounts received as grants or assistance or retained by the entity to be utilized for specific or earmarked purposes and remaining to be expended/utilized for the specific purpose for which these are intended, are required to be disclosed under Schedule 3 Earmarked/Endowment Funds.
During 2017-18 the Board received Rs.100.00 crore in two installments 1 from the Ministry of DoNer for incurring expenditure the project “Protection of Majuli Island from Flood and Erosion of river Brahmaputra” costing Rs.233.57 crore subject to compliance of certain terms and conditions 2. The Board however exhibited the above grants received from DoNer with the regular grant received from its ministry i.e. Ministry of Water Resource, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and entire fund of 100.00 crore had been added with Capital Fund. Since the above fund released by Ministry of DoNer for a specific project and are subject to compliance by the Board of certain stipulated terms and conditions, the entire fund should have been shown as ‘Earmarked/Endowment Funds‘ in a separate schedule. Thus, due to mixing up of the grants released by DoNER with the fund released by MoWR, RD&GR, Capital Fund of the board was overstated to the extent of Rs.100.00 crore with corresponding understatement of ‘Earmarked/Endowment funds’ to the same extent as on 31 March 2018.
B General.
1. In the year 2017-18 MoWR, RD & GR sanctioned a total budget outlay of Rs. 102.62 crore for the Board under ‘River Basin Management’ Scheme duly segregating the fund under recurring head of Rs.59.17 crore and under non-recurring head of Rs.43.45 crore in its sanction letter. The Board, however, had not shown the recurring grant of Rs.59.17 crore as income in the Income &Expenditure Account instead shown entire grant in Balance Sheet as on 31.03.2018 (Schedule-1 Capital Fund) by disclosing it in Schedule- 13 Significant Accounting Policies and Notes on Accounts that the entire grant were treated as Capital Grants as no classification was made in the sanction of grant by the Ministry. Thus, due to non-consideration of recurring grant of Rs.59.17 crore as income in the Income & Expenditure Accounts, “Excess of Expenditure over Income” was overstated by Rs.59.17 crore as on31 March 2018.
2. As per Uniform Format of Accounts applicable for Central Autonomous Bodies, provision for liability towards ‘Gratuity payable on death/retirement’. ‘Superannuation Pension’ and ‘Accumulated Leave Encashment’ of employees should be provided for and depicted in Schedule of Current Liabilities and Provisions. The Board, however, did not make any provisions for Gratuity, Superannuation pension and Accumulated Leave Encashment while preparing the accounts for the rear 2017-18.
3. Non- Provisioning of NPS: As per Ministry of Finance Office Order New Pension Scheme (NPS) had to be introduced in Central Autonomous Bodies w.e.f. 01 January 2004 for employees joined from January 2004 onwards and the process of shifting over to NPS architecture was to be completed by 31 January 2009. However, the Board had neither collected contributions from the concerned Staffs nor made any provisions for the Board contribution towards NPS in Its Balance Sheet as on 31 March 2018. 4. Board has adopted the depreciation rate as per Companies Act instead of Income tax Act as prescribed in Uniform format of accounts.
1 Rs. 30.00crore and Rs. 70.00 crore 2 Clause 3 of the sanction letter of the fund
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The Board had an unspent balance of grants-in-aid of Rs.0.45 crore as at 31 st March 2017 During the year 2017-18, the Board received grants-in-aid- of Rs.202.17 crore 3 Against the total grants-in-aid of Rs. 202.62 crore3, the Board utilizes Rs.84.73 crore 4 Against the and balance of Rs.117.89 crore 5 remained unutilized as on 31 March 2018.
D. Management letter
Deficiencies which have not been included in the Audit Report have brought to the notice of the Chairman, Brahmaputra Board, Guwahati through a management letter issued Separately for remedial/corrective action.
v). Subject to our observations in the preceding paragraphs we report that the Balance Sheet and income and Expenditure Account/Receipt and Payment Account dealt with by this report are in agreement with the book of accounts.
vi). In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the said financial statement read together with the Accounting Policies and Notes on Accounts, and subject to the significant matters stated above and other matters mentioned in Annexure to this Audit report give a true and fair view in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in India .
a. In so far as relates to the Balance Sheet of the state of affairs of the Brahmaputra Board as at 31 March 2018; b. In so far as it relates to Income and Expenditure Account of the deficit for the year ended on that date.
For and on behalf of the C &AG of India Place: New Delhi
Director General of Audit (Scientific Departments )
3 MoWR, RD & GR: Rs. 102.17 crore and DoNER: Rs. 100 crore 4 MoWR, RD & GR: Rs. 83.13 crore and DoNER: Rs. 1.60 crore 5 MoWR, RD & GR: Rs. 19.49 crore and DoNER: Rs. 98.40 crore
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1. Internal Audit : The Board has 15 field units. Coverage of internal audit was inadequate During the last three year internal Audit was conducted in respect of only 6 field unit in 2015-16; six 7 field units in 2016-17 and one 8 field in 2017-18
2. System of Internal control :
(i) Inadequate supervision on maintenance of register of postage stamp : The Board maintains two Stock Registers for Postage Stamp one maintained by the Board Head Office and other maintained by O/o the Chief Engineer-II Though there was a system of monthly verification of closing balance of stamps, these verifications were not done regularly with proper certificate and conducted belatedly.
(ii) Weakness of Internal control system
(a) Consumable stores: As per Uniform Format of Account applicable for the Central Autonomous Bodies, Current Assets include ‘Inventories” which comprise inter alia Consumables other than machinery parts.
As per Schedule-11 other Administrative Expenses etc of Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 31.03.2018, total expenditure of Rs. 0.36 crore was incurred during 2017-18 for procurement of Printing and Stationery items. Though there was a closing balance of the consumable stores 9 remaining with the Board’s HQ and its 15 field units as on 31 march 2018, the Board did not depict the value of the said closing balances of consumable stores in Schedule-5 Current Assets, Loans Advances etc. Consequently, the actual consumption of stores was not correctly reflected in the expenditure side of the Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 31 March 2018.
(b) Postage Stamp: As per the Board’s certificate the closing balance of postage stamp as on 31March 2018 was R.3,098.00 However, the Board did not depict the amount of closing balance of postage stamp in the Schedule-5 Current Assets, Loans and Advances etc. of Balance Sheet as on 31 March 2018. Further, stamp valuing Rs. 10.000.00 purchased in March 2018, was neither utilized during the year 2017-18 nor entered in the stock register as on 31 March 2018. Consequently, the actual consumption of stamps was not correctly reflected in the expenditure side of Income and Expenditure Account.
6 Majuli Division 7 Nagaon Division,Guwahati3. System Division,Guwahati of Physical Circle, Verification Nalbari Division,Lakhimpur of fixed Assets: Division and Physical Nalbari Circle verification of fixed 8 North Guwahati Division 9 42004.5 nos, Stationeryassets items’ had 29326 been nos,of conductedPrinting materials in and respect 37 nos of ofCartidges the Board’s Head Quarter for the year
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4. System of Physical Verification of Inventories : Physical verification of inventories had been carried out in respect of the Board’s Head Quarter for the year 2017-18 However, the Board could not furnish whether the same was carried out by its 15 Circles/Divisions/Units for the year 2017-18
5. Non-provisioning of liabilities: As per Uniform Format of Account for Central Autonomous Bodies, the central autonomous bodies are required to prepare as annual accounts as per accrual system. Further, as per instructions and Accounting Principles No.6 under Annexure-D of uniform Format of Accounts, provision shall be made for all known liabilities and losses even though the amount cannot be determined with substantial accuracy.
The Board did not make any provision for the expenditure/liability viz. salary/allowance of the employee electricity/telephone charges, contractual labour payment etc. which were pertaining to the year 2017-18, however paid in 2018-19.
Dy. Director (E.A.)
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BRAHMAPUTRA BOARD :: GUWAHATI-29 BRAHMAPUTRA BOARD CONTRIBUTORY PROVIDENT FUND TRUST BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH'2018 (Figures in Rupees) Previous Year Current Year as on Previous Year as Current Years as on as on CAPITAL & LIABILITIES ASSETS 31.03.2018 on 31.03.2017 31.03.2018 31.03.2017 INVESTMENT : 123,05,258.12 EMPLOYEES CONTRIBUTION 242,16,765.12
i) Fixed Deposit with Bank 1892,75,436.52 EMPLOYER'S CONTRIBUTION 1959,41,635.52 7115,99,000.00 7052,79,999.97 ii) Interest Accrued on Fixed 1656,62,824.66 VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION 1684,01,372.66 446,07,813.51 Deposit 478,21,237.51
CURRENT LIABILITIES AND 47,99,212.84 LOANS AND ADVANCES
PROVISION : TOSUBSCRIBERS 67,26,638.84 CASH AT BANK : 3533,43,204.00 Interest Payable to Subscribers 3320,52,268.00
i) Union Bank of India 578,79,637.03 EXCESS OF INCOME OVER 123,77,209.49 178,97,594.50 ii) IDBI Bank EXPENDITURE 598,25,008.01 50,83,124.49 27,11,578.49
7784,66,360.33 TOTAL: 7804,37,049.31 7784,66,360.33 TOTAL: 7804,37,049.31
Junior Accountant Deputy Financial Adviser Brahmaputra Board
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BRAHMAPUTRA BOARD :: GUWAHATI-29 BRAHMAPUTRA BOARD CONTRIBUTORY PROVIDENT FUND TRUST INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED ON 31 ST MARCH'2018 (Figures in Rupees) AS ON AS ON AS ON AS ON 31 ST EXPENDITURE 31 ST MARCH'18 31 ST INCOME 31 ST MARCH'18 MARCH'17 MARCH'17
540,88,634.00 TO INTEREST PAYABLE TO BY INTEREST FROM BANK :
SUBSCRIBERS 538,70,577.00 12,66,183.00 i) Saving Bank A/C 12,98,187.00
518.00 TO BANK CHARGES 649.00 560,13,682.29 ii) Fixed Deposit Receipt 545,18,409.98 TO EXCESS OF INCOME 31,90,713.29 OVER (Accrued Interest) EXPENDITURE CARRIED OVER TO BALANCE SHEET 19,45,370.98
572,79,865.29 TOTAL: 558,16,596.98 572,79,865.29 TOTAL: 558,16,596.98
Junior Accountant Deputy Financial Adviser Brahmaputra Board
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BRAHMAPUTRA BOARD :: GUWAHATI-29 BRAHMAPUTRA BOARD CONTRIBUTORY PROVIDENT FUND TRUST RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED ON 31ST MARCH'2018
(Figures in Rupees)
AS ON 31ST RECEIPTS AS ON 31ST MARCH'18 AS ON 31 ST PAYMENTS AS ON 31ST MARCH'18 MARCH'17 MARCH'17 TO OPENING BALANCE : 316,01,572.00 BY EMPLOYEES CONTRIBUTION : 79,36,106.20 i) Cash at Bank (UBI) 123,77,209.49 i) Employees Part -Withdrawal 115,46,600.00 14,85,377.49 ii) Cash at Bank (IDBI Bank) 50,8 3,124.49 ii) Final Settlement of CPF 374,22,569.00 489,69,169.00 372,47,674.00 TO EMPLOYEES CONTRIBUTION : 251,64,350.00 BY EMPLOYER'S CONTRIBUTION 374,04,174.00 i) From Brahmaputra Board 441,70,076.00 278,46,561.00 BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION 473,40 ,482.00 ii) From other organisation - 441,70,076.00 53,61,000.00 BY LOANS AND ADVANCES TO 373,41,931.00 TO EMPLOYER'S CONTRIBUTION : SUBSCRIBERS 74,09,000.00 i) From Brahmaputra Board 440,70,373.00 6667,18,000.00 BY FIXED DEPOSIT WITH BANK 4664 ,78,999.97 ii) From other organisation - 440,70,373.00 511,14,906.00 BY INTEREST PAID TO SUBSCRI - 482,75,309.00 TO VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION 500,79,030.00 BERS ON FINAL SETTLEMENT 751,61,513.00 50,82,446.00 TO ADVANCE RECOVERY FROM 518.00 BY BANK C HARGES 649.00 SUBSCRIBERS 54,81,574.00 BY CLOSING BALANCE : - TO RECOVERY/ ADJUSTMENT OF 123,77,209.49 i) Cash at Bank (UBI) 178,97,594.50 EMPLOYEES PART -WITHDRAWAL 167,10,600.00 50,83,124.49 ii) Cash at Bank (IDBI Bank) 27,11,578.49 6327,09 ,422.00 TO ENCASHMENT OF FIXED DEPOSIT 4727,98,000.00 551,88,975.29 TO INTEREST FROM BANK : i) Saving Bank A/C 12,98,187.00 ii) Fixed Deposit Receipt 513,04,985.98 526,03,172.98 8252,67,240.98 TOTAL: 7033,73,159.96 8252,67 ,240.98 TOTAL: 7033,73,159.96
Deputy Financial Adviser Junior Accountant Brahmaputra Board
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A Full Time Member
Sl. Designation of members Name of members Tenure No. 1 Chairman, Brahmaputra Shri Sanjay Kundu Additional Charge Board 2 Vice Chairman, Shri P. M. Scott Additional Charge Brahmaputra Board 3 General Manager, Vacant Vacant from 01.07.14 Brahmaputra Board 4 Financial Adviser, Dr. M. Ariz Ahammed Additional charge Brahmaputra Board From 22.11.16 to March 2018
B Part Time Member
Sl. Designation of member Representing State/Organization No. 1 Secretary to the Government of To represent the Government of Assam Assam, Water Resou rces Department 2 Chief Engineer, PWD(R), Government To represent the Government of Meghalaya of Meghalaya 3 Chief Engineer, Irrigation & Flood To represent the Government of Nagaland Control Department, Government of Nagaland. 4 Chief Engineer, PWD (WR), To represent the Government of Tripura Government of Tripura 5 Chief Engineer, Irrigation & Flood To represent the Government of Manipur Control Department, Government of Manipur 6 Chief Engineer, Water Resources To represent the Government of Arunachal Department, Government of Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh 7 Chief Engineer (Civil), Power and To represent the Government of Mizoram. Electricity Department, Government of Mizoram 8 Financial Adviser, North Eastern To represent the North Eastern Council, Council, Shillong Shillong 9 Joint Secretary, Soil Conservation and To represent the Ministry of Agriculture, Land Resources, Ministry of Government of India Agriculture. 10 Commissioner ( B&B), Ministry of Water To represent the Ministry of Water Resources, Resources, Government of India Government of India 11 Financial Adviser, Ministry of Water To represent the Ministry of Finance, Resources, Government of India Government of India 12 Joint Secretary (H), Ministry of Power, To represent the Ministry of Power, Government of India Government of India 13 Chief Engineer, Inland Waterways To represent the Ministry of Surface Authority of India, Government of India Transport, Government of India, 14 Member (RM), Central Water To represent the Central Water Commission Commission 176
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C Special Invitee
1 The Adviser (NE), NITI Aayog, Yojana Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi
2 The Chief Engineer (B & BBO), Central Water Commission, Shillong
3 The Secretary, Irrigation and Waterways Department, Government ofWest Bengal, Jalasampad Bhawan, Salt Lake, Kolkata
4 The Secretary, Water Resources & River Development Department, Government of Sikkim, Gangtok 5 The Secretary, Department of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Vigyan Bhawan Annex, Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi
6 The Director, North Eastern Space Application Centre, Government of India,Department of Space, Umium-793 103, Meghalaya
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Composition of the High Powered Review Board appointed by the Government of India Vide Resolution No. 2(17)/80-FC/460 Dated 19 th March, 1982 and as Amended Vide Resolution No. 23/8/92-ER/1798 Dated 1st October, 1992
1 Union Minister for Water Resources Chairman 2 Chief Minister of Assam or a Cabinet Minister duly authorized by Member him 3 Chief Minis ter of Manipur or a Cabinet Minister duly authorized Member by him 4 Chief Minister of Meghalaya or a Cabinet Minister duly authorized Member by him 5 Chief Minister of Nagaland or a Cabinet Minister duly authorized Member by him 6 Chief Minister o f Tripura or a Cabinet Minister duly authorized by Member him 7 Chief Minister of Mizoram or a Cabinet Minister duly authorized Member by him 8 Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh or a Cabinet Minister duly Member authorized by him 9 Union Minister / Minister of State for Finance Member
10 Minister of State for Water Resources Member
11 Union Minister / Minister of State for Energy Member
12 Union Minister / Minister of State for Agriculture. Member
13 Union Minister / Minister of State for Surface Transport Member
14 Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India Member
15 Chairman, Central Water Commission Member
16 Chairman, Brahmaputra Board Member-Secretary
17 Member (RM), Central Water Commission Permanent Invitee
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Statement of Regular Sanctioned Strength and Numbers Position of Officers /Staff and Field Staff Position of SC / ST / OBC and PH as on 01.04.2018
GROUP-A GROUP-B GROUP-C All posts in PB-3 and above All posts in PB-2 All posts in PB-1
TOTAL SL NAME OF OFFICE (A+B+C) UR SC ST OBC PH UR SC ST OBC PH UR SC ST OBC PH STRENGTH STRENGTH STRENGTH STRENGTH STRENGTH SANCTIONED SANCTIONED SANCTIONED SANCTIONED SANCTIONED No. in position position in No. No. in position position in No. position in No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Board's Head Qrts 1 Office including 5 4 0 1 0 0 26 16 6 1 3 0 45 31 7 3 4 3 76 Liaison Office
2 Finance Wing 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 16 9 4 0 3 0 19 3 Planning Wing 6 3 0 0 2 0 18 5 7 2 4 0 8 6 0 0 2 0 32 4 Works Wing 2 2 0 0 0 0 5 4 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 10 Superintending 5 Engineers (Field ) 3 2 0 0 1 0 7 0 0 0 3 0 14 0 1 0 4 0 24 Offices Executive 6 Engineers (Field) 11 9 1 0 2 0 73 34 14 3 22 0 104 61 17 8 17 3 188 Offices TOTAL= 82 29 0 0 2 4 0 190 130 0 27 6 33 0 356 190 0 29 11 31 6 628 349
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Annexure-IV (A) STATEMENT OF REGULAR SANCTIONED STRENGTH AND NUMBERS IN POSITION OF OFFICERS/ STAFF AND FIELD STAFF ALONG WITH THE POSITION OF SC/ST/OBC/PH AS ON 01-04-2018 GROUP -A GROUP -B GROUP -C All posts in PB -3 and above All posts in PB -2 All posts in PB -1
TOTAL SL NAME OF OFFICE (A+B+C) UR SC ST OBC PH UR SC ST OBC PH UR SC ST OBC PH STRENGTH STRENGTH STRENGTH STRENGTH SANCTIONED SANCTIONED SANCTIONED SANCTIONED No. in position No. in position No. in position No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Administration & 3 3 0 0 0 0 20 13 3 1 3 0 34 24 4 3 3 3 57 Secretariat Wing Liaison Office 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 5 3 1 0 1 0 9 1 Vigilance 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 4 Headquarters 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 6 TOTAL 5 4 0 1 0 0 26 16 6 1 3 0 45 31 7 3 4 3 76 2 Finance Wing 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 16 9 4 0 3 0 19 3 Planning Wing 6 3 0 0 2 0 18 5 7 2 4 0 8 6 0 0 2 0 32 4 Works Wing 2 2 0 0 0 0 5 4 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 10 Jorhat Circle 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 5 3 1 0 1 0 9 North Ghy Circle 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 4 5 Guwahati Circle 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 5 4 0 0 1 0 7 Nalbari Circle 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 4 TOTAL 3 2 0 0 1 0 7 5 0 0 3 0 14 9 1 0 4 0 24 Guwahati Division 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 5 1 0 4 0 19 9 5 0 5 0 30 North Ghy Divn 2 2 0 0 0 0 6 2 1 0 3 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 12 Nagaon Divn 1 0 1 0 0 0 5 2 2 0 1 0 12 11 0 1 0 0 18 Nalbari Divn 1 1 0 0 1 0 11 5 2 1 3 0 18 15 1 0 2 1 30 Majuli Divn 1 1 0 0 0 0 7 5 0 0 2 0 9 5 1 0 3 0 17 6 Lakhimpur Divn 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 3 1 1 1 0 10 3 4 1 1 0 17 Roing Divn 1 0 0 0 1 0 11 4 2 1 4 0 8 3 1 2 2 0 20 Barak Valley Divn 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 3 4 0 3 0 13 9 1 2 1 1 24 Agartala Divn 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 1 1 9 Jalpaiguri Divn 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 0 1 0 6 3 1 0 2 0 11 TOTAL 11 9 1 0 2 0 73 34 14 3 22 0 104 61 17 8 17 3 18 8 GRAND TOTAL = 82 29 22 1 1 5 0 190 130 75 27 6 33 0 356 190 118 29 11 31 6 628 349
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LIST OF OFFICERS WHO ATTENDED TRAINING/SEMINAR/WORKSHOP DURING THE YEAR 2017-18
S.N Name Detail of Place of Period of Seminar/Workshop/ training training Training/Course attended 1 Pranab Jyoti Sarma, JE Public Procurement E- IT & PR,New 19- 21 Procurement,Govt, E-market Delhi April,2018 2 Durgadhar Das, JE place (G eM) E-market place (GeM) 3 Iltaf Hussain, Secretary Office management & RTI Brahmaputra 29.11.2017 4 Chan Mohan Das,SE Board HQs, 5 Dhrubajyoti Borgohain,SE Guwahati 6 Gaya Prasad Singh,SE 7 Joy Barman,SE 8 Mrs. Jyotika Pegu,CVO 9 N.N. Deka,D.F.A 10 Hemanta Gogoi,EE 11 Dina Nath Bujarbaruah,SE 12 J. C. Mazumdar,EE 13 Ranjit Saikia,EE 14 Mukul Ch. Lahkar,EE 15 Brajendra Kr.Talukdar,AEE 16 Sailendra Kr. Talukdar,AEE 17 M. Koirala, AD (OL) 18 Abhijit Boruah,A.O 19 D.N. Kalita,AEE 20 Kanakeswar Goswami,SO 21 D.K. Das ,Sup Gd-I 22 S.K. Boruah,AG-I 23 K.C.Kotoky,AG-I 24 Kishor Sarma,UDC 25 Paresh Sarma,UDC 26 Joy kanta Sarma,UDC 27 Prabin Borah ,JE 28 Deepak Kr. Das,JE 29 A.R. Borah,UDC 30 Biswajit Bose ,JE 31 T. Chakraborty,JE 32 N.C. Basumatary ,JE 33 N.Chetia,JE 34 Anjan Kr. Dutta,JE 35 J.J. Saikia,JE 36 Ranjan Rai,JE 37 Milon Sengupta,JE 38 Kishor Kr. Das ,JE 39 Sachindra Kalita,UDC 40 Basanta Deka,UDC 41 T. Ahmed ,UDC 42 S.C. Boruah,UDC 43 N.K. Dutta,Jr. Actt 44 Dipak kr. Das ,Jr. Actt 45 Jayanta Das,Jr. Actt 46 Simanta Hazarika,Jr. Actt
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S.N Name Detail of Place of Period of Seminar/Workshop/ training training Training/Course attended 47 Dilip Kr. Deka,Jr. Actt 48 Smt. Anupama Seal,LDC 49 Ms. Anupama Handique,LDC 50 Rajiv Bhagawati,LDC 51 Nokul Changami,LDC 52 Imtaz Khanikar, LDC 53 Prafulla Deka , LDC 54 M. Basumatary,LDC 55 Pranabjyoti Sarma,JE Gem & GFR,2017 NIFM,Faridab 21 -22 August ad 2017 56 NN Deka, DFA Public Procurement under ISTM New 57 Ranjit Kr Saikia, EE GFR 2017 Delhi 58 Shymal Deka ,EE World water Summit Convention 22.3.2018 59 Durgadhar Das, JE Centre NDCC New Delhi 60 Rajkumar Thakur, JE 61 Iltaf Hussain, Ex Sec Deliberation of interim report Guwahati 23.4.2018 62 D.J. Borgohai ,CE of Expert Committee 63 Ranjit Deka,EE Management of NE regions Water resources 64 D.J Borgohai SE(P) Brahmaputra River Basin Guwahati 12-13 Feb 65 Ranjit Deka, Conclave university 2018 66 Bhaskar Choudhury,AEE
67 Asit Chaturvedy Dy CE National Conference Cum Guwahati 22-23 May Roadshow on waterway A Hotel 2017 68 Joy Burman SE (P) gateway in North East Redission Blue
69 D J Borgohai,CE Proper Management of North 70 Ranjit Deka,EE East India Water Resources 71 Iltaf Hussain,Sec Expanding tradable benefits of Dhaka 10.8.2017 transboundary water Bangladesh promoting navigational uses of Inland waterways in Ganga & Brahmaputra 72 GP Singh,SE Technical level meeting on Dhaka 18.5.2017 water resources matters Bangladesh 73 Bharati Patowary State Consultation on MSP on OX FAM 23.4.2018 Baruah SE River Bank erosion in IndiaIIT,Ghy 74 Mrinal Sarma EE Brahmaputra River Basin 75 TC Borah Organisational development IIM 76 GP Singh oriented training Ahmadabad 77 PC Saloi 78 R K Saikia 79 Dipak Saikia 80 Ranendra Kalita 81 MKB Singh 82 Alemwati Longkumer Hydrological Sciences and NERIWALM,T 8-9 March 83 Kishore Kumar Das disaster Management ezpur 2018
84 Ranjan Rai
85 Roushanara Begum 86 Sanjiv Barman 87 GP Singh,SE, Impact Assesment for policy CEF ASC of 15-16 Feb
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S.N Name Detail of Place of Period of Seminar/Workshop/ training training Training/Course attended 88 Shymal Deka,EE makers India New 2018 Delhi 89 Sanjay Kumar Kundu, Launch Workshop on Proper World 18.12.17 90 PM Scott management of WRm in North Bank/Donear, 91 CM Das East New Delhi 92 DJ Borgohai 93 D Bujarbaruah 94 Dipak Saikia 95 Shri Chan Mohan Das Leadership Motivation and Brahmaputra 11.9.2017 96 Dhrubajyoti Borgohain ethical governance Board HQs, 97 Gaya Prasad Singh Guwahati 98 Joy Barman 99 Thaneswar Bora 100 Hemanta Gogoi 101 Prahlad Saloi 102 Deben Sarma 103 Dipak Saikia 104 Dina Nath Bujarbaruah 105 Jatin Chandra Mazumdar 106 Ramesh Panowar 107 Mrs. Bharati Pat owary Baruah 108 Nripendra Nath Deka 109 Mukul Ch. Lahkar 110 Brajendra Kr. Talukdar 111 Ranendra Kalita 112 M.K. B. Singh 113 Atul Sarma 114 Sailendra Kr. Talukdar 115 Kulendra Kr. Bhagawati 116 Hari Prasad Saikia 117 Anil Kumar Deka 118 Bhaskarjyoti Choudhury 119 Ranjit Deka 120 Shymal Deka,EE Country focused training course Japan JICA 26th Nov to 121 Ranjit Deke,EE on integrated Water 16th Dec & 122 Bhaskar jyoti choudhury,EE Management in Water 21st Jan to Resources Development 10th Feb 2018 123 Alemwati Long kumer,JE -Do- -do- 21st January 124 Paragjit Sarma,JE II phase 2018 to 10th February 2018
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ANNEXURE- VI List of Officers on deputation to other organization (As on 31.03.2018)
Sl. Name & designation Name of the Organization Period of deputation No. 1 Shri Dharanidhar Bharali Jr. Engineer N.F. Railway 19.12.2014to till date
Detail Officials of Brahmaputra Board Working on Loan up to 31.03.2018
S.N. Name of employee Designation Date of joining in CWC/ CGWB 1 Sri Arnav Barman Jr. Engineer 15.11.2016 2 Sri Dayananda Hatibaruah Jr. Engineer 02.11.2016 3 Sri Deepak Kumar Jr. Engineer 10.11.2016 4 Sri Jayanta Thakuria Jr. Engineer 11.11.2016 5 Sri Kartik Ghosh Jr. Engineer 16.11.2016 6 Sri Kripamoy Das Jr. Engineer 04.01.2016 7 Sri Lalbabu Roy Jr. Engineer 15.11.2016 8 Sri Madhurjya Kr. Borah Jr. Engineer 05.11.2016 9 Sri Palash Thakuria Jr. Engineer 18.11.2016 10 Sri Suren Bhagawati Jr. Engineer 16.11.2016 11 Sri Vinay Kumar Jr. Engineer 08.11.2016 12 Sri Jyotish Ch. Lahkar UDC 10.11.2016 13 Sri Padma Nath Saikia LDC 07.11.2016 14 Sri Richard Chand Jr. Engineer 03.01.2017 15 Sri Munindra Kr. Barman Jr. Engineer Not yet joined 16 Sri Bhogeswar Borchetia Jr. Engineer 02.01.2017 17 Sri Bharat Ch. Debnath Jr. Engineer 18 Sri T.D. Purkayastha Jr. Engineer 19 Sri Joyeep Das Jr. Engineer 07.01.2017 20 Sri Anupam Nath Jr. Engineer 09.01.2017 21 Miss Likirani Bhoi Jr. Engineer 10.01.2017 22 Sri Gautam Kr. Bhattacharjya Jr. Engineer 23 Sri Nabin Ch. Bora Jr. Engineer 03.01.2017 24 Sri Hemanta Saikia Jr. Engineer 10.01.2017 25 Sri Noor Alam Jr. Engineer 10.01.2017 26 Sri Numal Ch. Kuli Jr. Engineer 12.01.2017 27 Sri Chikon Baruah Tracer 23.01.2017 28 Sri Ghana Kanta Sonowal Blue Printer Not yet joined 29 Sri Chandan Deka UDC 13.01.2017 30 Sri Nil Ratan Singh Driver 06.01.2017 31 Mrs. Yane Mibang Chowkidar 12.01.2017 32 Sri Nripendra Nath Haloi W/C Boatman 33 Sri Ajmal Ali Driver 34 Sri Farukh Ahmed Mazumder Peon 35 Sri Jahir Uddin Barlaskar Peon 36 Sri Jitendra Prasad Jr. Engineer 23.02.2017
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ANNEXURE-VII RTI Annual Return information system for the year 2017-18 Ministry / Department / Organization: Brahmaputra Board, Basistha, Guwahati-29 Year: 2017-18 (Up to 31.03.2018)
Progress Report in 2017-18 Opening No. of Received during No. of cases Decisions Decisions Balance As application the year transferred to where where on received (including cases other Public requests/ requests/ 01.04.2017 during the transferred to Authorities - appeals appeals year as other Public U/S 6(3) rejected accepted transfer from Authority) other PAs Requests 1 18 14 1 Nil 22
First Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil appeals
Nil No. of cases where disciplinary action taken against any Officer
No. of CAPIOs designated No. of CPIOs designated No. of AAs designated 16 1 1
No. of items of various provisions invoked while rejecting requests
Relevancy sections of RTI Act, 2005
Section 8 (1) Sections a b c d e f g h i j 9 11 24 Other
Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 1 Nil Nil Nil Nil
Amount of charges collected (in Rs.)
Registration fees Additional fees and any other Penalties amount charges 230 Nil Nil
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12% Approved by Government of India and furnished to the State Governments for implementation of recommendations- 49 Once Board Approved. Further modified as per suggestion 7% of MOWR,RD&GR. Approved by 64th and 65th meeting of 4% Board Once Board Approved. Under further modification as suggested by MOWR,RD&GR 7% Draft completed. Further modification by Board as per suggestion of MoWR,RD&GR in progress - 5 70% Sub-Basins identified for preparation - 8
A. Approved b y Govt of India 1. Brahmaputra Main Stem- Part-I 42. Dhansiri (North) 2. Barak & its tributaries-Part-II 43. Barnadi 3. Buridehing 44. Buroi 4. Dikhow 45. Brahmajan 5. Dhansiri 46. Beki-Manas-Aie 6. Kopilli Kollong 47. Dudhnoi-Krishnai 7. Puthimari 48. Bargang 8. Ranganadi 49. Tipkai 9. Gumti B. Once Board Approved. Further 10. Pagladiya modified as per suggestion of 11. Noa-nadi MOWR,RD&GR Approved by 64 th and 65 th meeting of Board 12. Dikrong 50. Jaldhaka 13. Muhuri 51. Tangani 14. Jia-Bharali 52. Torsa 15. Manu 53. Teesta 16. Champamati 54. Simsang 17. Disang C. Board Approved. Under f urther 18. Jinary modification as suggested by MOWR,RD&GR 19. Na-Noi 55. Umngot 20. Juri 56. Sankosh - Raidak 21. Burima 57. Kynshi 22. Dhalai D. Draft completed. Further to be modified 23. Jiadhal as suggested byMOWR,RD&GR 24. Bharalu 58. Ganol 25. Lohit 59. Waikhyrwi 26. Majuli island 60. Umtru 27. Khowai 61. Umsohryngkew 28. Ghiladhari E. Sub -Basins identified for preparation of 29. Jinjiram Master Plans 30. Dhaleswari 62. Dareng 31. Moridhal 63. Bugi 32. Jhanji 64. Umiew 33. Subansiri 65. Myntdu 34. Gaurang 66. Lubha 35. Haora 67. Imphal River 36. Gabharu 68. Feni River 37. Gadadhar 69. Kolodyne 38. Bhogdoi 70. Tuichang 39. Belsiri 40. Kulsi-Deosila 41. Depota Total - 70
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ANNEXURE- IX Status of DDS as on 31.03.2018
A. Completed and handed over to WRD, Assam:
B. Scheme under execution: 2 4 C. Execution suspended due to inability of State to provide land: 14 2 D. Handed over to State Governments:
3 E. TEC accorded by CWC:
2 F. DPR revised for execution:
G. Deleted by Board : 3 1 6 4 H. Under compliance of observations of CWC:
I. Under preparation of DPR / Data collection in Field Office: J. Schemes under process of deletion:
A. Completed and handed over to WRD, I. Under preparation of DPR / Data Assam: collection in Field Office: i) Harang i) Sonai ii) East of Barpeta ii) Laura-Jamira-Sessa B. Scheme under execution: iii) Punir i) Barbhag iv) Ghiladhari ii) Amjur iii) Jengrai v) Tingrai iv) Jakaichuk vi) Haria-Nanoi C. Execution suspended due to inability of State to provide land: i) Kailashahar ii) Singla D. Handed over to State Governments: J. Schemes under process of i) Rudrasagar – Tripura. deletion: ii) Kalamonijan - Assam i) Konwarpur iii) Nelli- Assam ii) Badri E. TEC accorded by CWC: iii) Mora-Dikrong i) Depota iv) Sukhsagar ii) Pola v) Mora-Pichalamukh F. DPR under revis ion for execution: i) Demow vi) Pakania G. Deleted by Board : vii) Namdang i) Joysagar viii) Sisapathar ii) Rongsai ix) Gelabil iii) Sessa x) West of Barpeta H. Under compliance of observations of xi) Ghagra CWC: xii) Bherekibil i) Pota Kolong ii) Deroi xiii) Khatra iii) Larsing xiv) Batha iv) Dharmanagar
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ANNEXURE- X Status of MPP as on 31.03.2018
A. DPR completed and handed over to other organisations - 5
2 B. DPR completed and taken up for execution - 1
5 C. All Chapters of DPR cleared by CWC & CEA - 2 2
D. Under Survey & Investigation - 3
3 E. DPR partially completed and handed over to other organisations - 2 2 1 F. Project initially under Brahmaputra Board handed over to private developer by Govt. of Meghalaya - 2
A. DPR completed and handed over to other organisations:
i) Di hang (Siang) Dam Project - Handed over to NHPC ii) Subansiri Dam Project - Handed over to NHPC iii) Dibang MP Project - Handed over to NHPC iv) Tipaimukh Dam Project - Handed over to NEEPCO v) Bairabi Dam Project – Handed over to Govt. of Mizoram
B. DPR completed and taken u p for execution:
Pagladiya Dam Project - Closed due to inability to provide land for construction
C. All Chapters of DPR cleared by CWC & CEA :
i) Kulsi Multipurpose Project ii) Noa-Dihing Multipurpose Project
D. DPR partially completed and handed over to other o rganisations:
i) Dibang Dam Project - Handed over to NHPC ii) Lohit Dam Project - Handed over to private developers by Arunachal Govt.
E. Project initially under Brahmaputra Board handed over to private developer by Govt. of Meghalaya: i) Kynshi Stage –I Dam project ii) Kynshi Stage –II Dam Project
F. Under Survey & Investigation: i) Jiadhal Multipupose Project i) Killing Dam Project ii) Simsang Multipurpose project
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