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Management Plan, Control Room Ready to Tackle Flood
The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar
|May 30, 2025
WITH the south-west monsoon making its onset in the state, the Odisha government has decided to make the flood management arrangements operational from June 1 to October 31.
The decision was taken during a flood preparedness meeting chaired by development commissioner Anu Garg here on Thursday. Garg is also the additional chief secretary of Water Resources department.
The meeting decided that the flood management arrangements across all divisions, circles and offices of the chief engineers concerned of Water Resources department will be operational 24 hours a day during the five-month season.
The control rooms will function in the offices of the engineer-in-chief (EIC) and chief engineer besides the State Hydrological Data Centre (SHDC) in the Water Resources department.
This story is from the May 30, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar.
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