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Government of India
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)

25-October-2011 15:04 IST

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved the proposal for scheme of Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) with the World Bank assistance.

Total cost of the scheme is Rs.21,000 crore (Rs.1968 crore for State component and Rs.132 crore for Central component), comprising Rs.1680 crore will be funded by World Bank, Rs.393.60 crore will be funded by the Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) states and balance Rs.26.4 crore through central sector scheme.

It would provide rehabilitation of 223 Dams in the States of Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Tamil Nadu along with the dam safety institutional strengthening in these four States and Strengthening of the Dam Safety Organizations at national level in Central Water Commission.

The project will improve the safety and operational performance of selected existing dams with reduced risk of failure. The primary beneficiaries are both urban and rural communities dependent on the concerned reservoirs for their water supply and livelihood as well as all downstream communities, who could be placed at physical and/or operational risk if dam safety is compromised. With the institutional strengthening component, Dam Safety Organisations (DSOs) will become effective organisations that can take the lead in overseeing that dams remain safe from a structural and operational point of view.

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Dam safety project approved to rehabilitate selected dams and strengthen dam safety organisations for reduced failure risk. Approval was granted for the Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP), combining multilateral, state and central financing to rehabilitate 223 selected dams in four states and to fund institutional strengthening of Dam Safety Organisations and the national dam-safety framework. The project aims to improve structural and operational performance, reduce the risk of failure, and protect reservoir-dependent urban, rural and downstream communities by pairing capital rehabilitation with governance and capacity-building measures.