About Center

About Regional Centre:

The Deltaic Regional Centre (DRC) of National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee was established in the year 1991 in Kakinada, East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. The jurisdiction of DRC is Coastal regions of West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu including Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This Centre undertakes R&D studies referred by various state Govt., departments, sponsored research projects, consultancy projects and International funded projects. The Centre is actively participating in various review meetings of all State Water Resources departments and also interacting with academic institutions like Andhra University, Visakhapatnam; JNTU Kakinada, IITs, NITs, Agricultural Universities etc,. Also, it is having collaboration with VIT Vellore, NGRI, NRSC on common scientific challenges. Further, the centre is imparting training on various facets of Hydrology. The centre is equipped with water quality laboratory, Hydrometeorological observatory, GIS and Remote sensing tools and other hydrological software for analyzing field problems. The Centre is having highly skilled human resources in the field of Hydrology.

 Vision & Mission:

The vision of the center is to address specific hydrologic problems of East coastal & Deltaic regions of India in collaboration with state and central agencies. East coast of India is rich in utilisable water resources as most of the central and peninsular rivers drain towards the Bay of Bengal through important river deltas of Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery. Since it is a coastal region, groundwater quality problems are also significant in coastal areas apart from the surface water problems. The backwater through the streams and rivers, aquaculture practices, excessive pumping of groundwater are the main sources of salinization in the shallow aquifers. Poor drainage, irrigation return flows and industries are also adding the problem to the water resources. Accordingly, to deal these problems few thrust areas are identified, and they include Urban Hydrology, Sedimentation of reservoirs, Real-time flood forecasting, the impact of climate change on river flows, Flash floods in ungauged basins, point and non-point source groundwater contamination, Saltwater intrusion modelling. The Centre also organizes user interaction workshops, brainstorming sessions, seminars for the benefit of Officers working in the field of Hydrology and Water Resources. The Centre also implementing Govt., of India programs in the field of Water Resources.