(INCH)

INDIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON HYDRAULICS (INCH)

Introduction

Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) provides financial assistance to promote research work in the field of Water Resources Engineering. The assistance is provided by way of grants to academicians/experts in the Universities, IITs, recognized R&D laboratories, Water Resources/ Irrigation departments of the Central and State Governments and NGOs. Research proposals of applied nature as well as basic research are considered for MoWR support. 

Indian National Committees

Considering wide range of topics covered by Water Resources Engineers, five committees called Indian National Committees (INCs) have been constituted to co-ordinate the R&D programme. INCH is one of these five committees.

INC for Hydraulics Research (INCH)

The INCH Secretariat is based at Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune. Chairman of INCH is Member (D &R), Central Water Commission. Director, CWPRS is a member of the committee. Member-Secretary is also from CWPRS. Director, R&D division is the representative of Ministry of Water Resources in INCH. The other members are as follows:

1. Representative of two Central Government organizations not below the rank of Chief Engineer.

2. Representative of two State Government not below the rank of Chief Engineer.

3. Representative of two State Research Institutes not below the rank of Chief Engineer.

4. Representatives of a Professional Society .

5. Two Eminent academicians/ Experts (in the field of Hydraulics)

Subject Domain

• Management of Floods
• Hydraulic Structures (including masonry and concrete structures)
• River and Estuarine Hydraulics
• River Morphology
• Ground Water Hydraulics
• Instrumentation for Seismic and Geophysical Measurements
• Open Channel Flow
• Pipe Flow
• Hydraulic Machinery
• City Water Supply
• Ports and Harbours

Research Categories

Research and related activities for which grant-in-aid from MoWR can be sought shall cover one or more from the following list.

• Basic Research
• Applied Research
• Action Research
• Education & Training
• Mass Awareness on Water Resources Development
• Infrastructure Development
• Creation of Centres of Excellence

MoWR also welcomes the involvement of eminent scientists and engineers including retired personnel to carry out special research, monograph writing, preparation of state-of-the-art report etc. In such cases the retired personnel should encourage younger engineers/scientists from their group to submit the research proposal with which they could be associated.

The Principal Investigators submit the reports of the research work carried out by them in various fields mentioned above. Six such reports are uploaded on this site for dissemination of the knowledge available from these studies.

	Bed Form Characteristics
	Design of Stilling Basins
	Labyrinth Spillway
	Remote Sensing Data Based Soil Conservation Studies to Control Sedimentation in Sriramsagar Reservoir
	Surf Zone Hydraulics
	Tandem breakwaters