The document outlines a national workshop organized by the Indian Water Resources Society and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee focusing on hydropower development and management. It emphasizes India's substantial hydropower potential while highlighting the decline in its contribution to electricity generation due to various planning and operational challenges. The workshop aims to bring together stakeholders to discuss strategies for reviving hydropower as a key component of renewable energy.

1. National Workshop onNational Workshop on
HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND
MANAGEMENT – THINKING AHEAD
April 16, 2017
Organised by
Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS),
Roorkee - 247667 (Uttarakhand), India
Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS),
Roorkee - 247667 (Uttarakhand), India
Department of Water Resources Development & Management,
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,
Roorkee - 247667(Uttarakhand) India
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,
Roorkee - 247667(Uttarakhand) India
Department of Water Resources Development & Management,
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2. Introduction
Energy is the essential driver of nature and overall growth of a nation
as well. Due to limited availability of energy resources, the focus is
shifting to renewable sources of energy. Hydropower is one of the
proven clean renewable sources of energy with global installed
capacity of about 1064 GWtill 2015, and generation to have reached
about 3,940 TWh, meeting 16.6% of the total global energy
requirements. India's hydropower potential is about 1,48,700 MW
with additional scope of about 75,000 MW from pumped storage
schemes.
India's hydropower system can be divided into five major regions:
Northern, western, southern, eastern, and north-eastern regions.
Every region has its own advantages and challenges. Northern and
western regions have huge power demands compared to eastern and
north-eastern regions. A large part of the hydroelectric potential is
concentrated in North-eastern States by virtue of the availability of
water and required head but the demand for power in these areas is
insignificant. The installed capacity of hydropower in northern
region is about 18377 MW whereas it is about 1242 MWin north-
easternregion.
Despite the fact that hydropower is the most economic and preferred
source of electricity, its share has been declining in the country
steadily since 1963; in terms of installed capacity it has declined
from 50% in 1962-63 to about 16% in October 2016. It is largely because of complexities and challenges that are
ubiquitousduringplanning,construction,operationandmaintenanceofhydropower projects.
During planning stage, there is an uncertainty in finalization of objectives, constraints, public acceptance, and
finalization of cost estimate & time schedule, long delays in obtaining statuary clearances, etc. During the
construction stage, the projects are marred by geological uncertainties; occurrence of natural disasters;issues of
addressing air, land and noise pollution; muck disposal; cash flow constraints; etc. These may lead to the time
and cost overrun of the project. Once the project is commissioned there may be fluctuation in stream discharge
due to changing climate, development of a new project upstream or downstream of the existing project,
sedimentation problem, faults in electro-mechanical equipment and power evacuation issues. These factors
elevate the complexities pertaining to finalization of optimal operating schedule which ultimately disrupts the
targetedpowerandrevenuegeneration.
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee has established a Chair in the area of Hydropower to carry out research
and suggest means of its promotion as one of the renewable sources of energy. Keeping these in mind, a National
workshop is being organized at the Department of Water Resources Development and Management in
association with the Indian Water Resources Society under the aegis of JPSS Chair (Hydropower). The
workshop aims at to bring together the hydropower project developers, policy makers, academicians,
researchersandstudentstosharetheirexperiencesandknowledgeintheareaof hydropower management.
This National Workshop will focus on the following areas of hydropower development and management from
thefuturisticpointofview:
v Present scenario of hydropower development
v Revival of hydropower for long term energy security
v Legislative and regulatory changes required in power policy for sustainable development
v Struggles for reducing cost and time overrun of hydropower schemes.
v Integrated approach for Operation & Management of existing hydropower schemes
v Issues related to sustainability of small hydropower schemes

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v Power management, market issues and conflict resolution with other power producers
v Capacity building in Water Resources Development & Management
Social and Environmental issues related to hydropower schemes.
About Department of Water Resources Development & Management (WRD&M)
About IWRS
About Roorkee
Special Issue of IWRS Journal
Important Dates
Venue and Date
Department of Water Resources Development and Management of IITR is a premier place for learning of
international standing in post-graduate education, training and research in the discipline of water resources
development and management. Since its creation in 1955 under the stewardship of ECAFE (now ESCAP) of the
United Nations, the department has imparted post graduate education and training on water resources
development and management to 2700 water resources professionals from more than 50 countries of Asia,
Africa and Latin America. The department has creditably undertaken numerous national and international
sponsored research and consultancy projects on hydraulic & hydrological modelling, remote sensing & GIS
based studies for river basin geomorphology & flood-plain changes, stream bank protection & erosion control,
flood estimation & management, hydro power development, irrigation water management, river engineering
including inland navigation, planning & design of hydraulic structures for water resources management.
Besides regular post-graduation programmes, the department has been conducting many short-term national
and international training courses in different themes of water resources management for the purpose of
capacity building of water resources professionals from India and abroad. The department has successfully
completed major R&D projects on action research for effecting improvement in specific under-performing
largeirrigationsystems inIndiaundersponsorships fromFord Foundation,IWMIetc.
Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS) was founded in 1980 as a society registered under the Societies
Registration Act. IWRS Registered office is located in the Department of Water Resources Development and
Management, IIT Roorkee. In addition, IWRS has local centers in most of the major cities. Subject to approval
by the executive committee, membership of IWRS is open to any person who is interested in water sector. One
doesn't have to be an engineer to be a member of IWRS.Atruly democratic institution, IWRS accepts even those
as members who are known to hold a view contrary to IWRS institutional view. At the last count, IWRS has
about7651 individualmembers;397fellows;and50institutionalmembers.
The main objective of IWRS is advancement of knowledge in technical and policy aspects of water resources
development and management. IWRS serves as a platform for free and frank discussions amongst those
concernedwithwaterrelatedissues.
Roorkee is a peaceful and pollution free town, situated in the foothills of the Himalaya and is a gateway to the
pilgrimage centre of Hardwar, Rishikesh, Badrinath, Kedarnath & hill stations of Dehradun, Mussoorie and
Nainital. It is located inAmritsar-Howrah main line of Northern Railway and almost all mail/express trains stop
here. Roorkee is well connected by road/rail to Delhi, Dehradun, Hardwar as well as important cities of Punjab,
Haryana, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh. The 150 years old Northern Ganga Canal originating from Haridwar
whichis30Kms. fromRoorkee,passes throughtheheartof thetown.
Full length papers are invited latest byApril 5, 2017. High quality selected papers will be published in a special
issue of IWRS Journal. Full length papers in the above in word format can be emailed to the conference
organizersintheIWRSJournalformatatE-mail:secretaryiwrs@gmail.com/ashisfwt@gmail.com.
5,2017
Lastdatefor paymentofregistrationfee ,2017
Workshop date ,2017
Submission of paperstotheIWRSJournalafterpeerreview May ,2017
The Workshop will be organized in the Department of Water Resources Development and Management, IIT
Roorkeeon ,2017.
Lastdatefor submission ofregistrationformandselectionintimationtocandidates April
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4. Registration Fee
Accommodation
Organizing Committee
The Registration fee for workshop will be Rs. 1500/- for Indian delegates and Rs. 500/- for students. The
Registration fee covers conference materials, breakfast and lunch. Registration Fee can be paid through
Demand Draft in favour of "Secretary, IWRS Roorkee”, payable at State Bank of India, IIT Roorkee Branch,
Roorkee,andsenttoSecretary,IWRS,Roorkee.
Patrons
Prof.AjitK. Chaturvedi Er.A.B.Pandya
Director
IITRoorkee Ex-ChairmanCWC,New Delhi
Chairman Organizing Committee
Prof. S.K. Mishra
Executive Vice President IWRS and Head, Department of WRD&M, IITRoorkee
Vice-ChairmanOrganizingCommittee OrganizingSecretary
Prof.M.L.Kansal Dr.AshishPandey
AssociateProfessor andSecretaryIWRS,
Professor, Department of WRD&M, IIT Roorkee Department of WRD&M, IIT Roorkee
Participants have to make their own arrangement for accommodation. Accommodation in hotels of all ranges
areavailableinRoorkeeandthesecanbebookedonlineorthroughorganizersonadvancepayment.
PresidentIWRSand
JPSS ChairProfessor (Hydropower) and
Members of Advisory Committee
1. Shri M. Gopalakrishnan, Ex-Secretary
General, ICID and Past President IWRS
2. Shri R.D. Singh, Director, NIH Roorkee
3. Prof. C.S.P. Ojha, Professor and Head, CED,
IIT Roorkee
4. Prof. S.K. Majumdar, Retd. Prof. DCE,
New Delhi
5. Er. R.N. Misra, CMD SJVN Ltd.
6. Er. N.N. Pande, Retd. Chief Engineer, NHPC
7. Er. D.P. Bhargav, Ex Director Tech.,
NHPC
8. Prof. D. Das Retd. Professor, WRDM, IITR
9. Prof. Arun Kumar, IIT Roorkee
10. Shri H.L. Arora, Exe. Director, THDCIL
11. Dr. S.K. Jain, Scientist-G, NIH, Roorkee
Members of Organizing Committee
1. Prof. Deepak Khare,
WRDM, IIT Roorkee
2. Prof. Nayan Sharma,
WRDM, IIT Roorkee
3. Prof. S.K. Shukla,
WRDM, IIT Roorkee
4. Dr. Thanga Raj Chelliah,
WRDM, IIT Roorkee
5. Prof. S.V. Appa Sarma,
WRDM, IIT Roorkee
6. Shri Anuj Kanwal,
Director, INCSW, CWC
7. Shri P.N. Singh,
Director, CWC
8. Dr. R.P. Pandey, Scientist-G,
NIH Roorkee
Contact Address
Prof. M.L. Kansal Dr. Ashish Pandey
Associate Professor and Secretary IWRS,
Professor, Department of WRD&M Department of WRD&M
IIT Roorkee IIT Roorkee
Email: mitthan@gmail.com Email: ashisfwt@gmail.com;
Mob. 09412919302 secretaryiwrs@gmail.com
Mob. 094120 70399
JPSS Chair Professor (Hydropower) and