1. Flood Forecasting

The Central Water Commission started flood forecasting since November 19.58, when the first forecasting station was established at the Old Railway Bridge of Delhi. Since then, it has extended the flood-forecasting stations to cover almost all the major flood prone rivers of the country. At present, there are 175 flood forecasting stations on different major and minor rivers of the country. The centre issues daily flood forecasts and warnings throughtout the season of general rains.

The Central Flood Forecasting Organisation monitors floods all over the country and issues warnings. The main flood forecasting centres are located at Surat (Tapi), Bharuch (Narmada), Varanasi, Buxar, Patna, Hathidah, and Aimabad (Ganga), Dibrugarh and Guwahati (Assam),Jalpaiguri (Tista), Delhi (Yamuna), Lucknow (Gomti), Bhubaneshwar (Subamrekha, Burtha, Balang, Brahmani and Baitami), Sahibi (Rajasthan), and Gandhi-Sagar (Chambal). In addition to these, there are 157 flood forecasting stations from which about fiOOO forecasts are issued every year.