Managing Historic Flood in the Krishna River Basin
Acknowledgements Managing historic flood in Krishna basin is a unique experience for the present generation of Engineers and decision makers. The parts of the State were reeling under drought till then and administrators had to switch their role overnight from drought management to flood management in the State. The confidence with which the entire community of Engineers and Administrators handled the historic flood is exemplary. Experts in various engineering fields, administrators, weather forecast experts, were present to given their valuable inputs for decision making at the flood control centre. The professional excellence, team coordination and responsible administration have played important role. The systems for decision support and communication played important role in bringing clarity for critical decision making. The information shared and the discussions held during the the historic floods at flood control centre and the secondary literature collected from various line departments was useful for completing this document. At the outset I would like to thank Sri. S. P. Tucker, Principal Secretary, I & CAD for giving me this opportunity to prepare this document. I would also like to thank Sri. Adityanath Das, Secretary, Irrigation, for enabling me to complete this document. I also would like to thank Sri. M. K. Rahaman, Engineer-in-Chief, (Administration), Sri B.S.N. Reddy, Engineer-in-Chief, (Irrigation), Chief Engineer CDO Sri. I. S. N. Raju, Sri. K. Prakash, Engineer-in- Chief (Retd.), Dr. Mruthyunjaya Reddy, DG APSRAC for sharing the information and giving suggestions in preparing this document. I sincerely thank Sri. Dinesh Kumar, Commissioner, Disater management, Sri. Sanjay Gupta Spl. Commissioner and CADA staff members for sharing the information for preparing this document.
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