Annual Report (Technical) of the Central Board of Irrigation India 1943

Summary reports of the work carried out during the year 1942-43 at the six research stations of the Government of India and the Provinces and papers on specific subjects selected by the Board together with discussions thereon appear under the respective subject heads. [...] The discussions consttute the technical proceedings o(i) The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Research Committee July 1943 and (ii) The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Central Board of Irrigation November 1943 in addition to which an informal meeting of the Research Committee was held in February 1943. [...] SUMMARISED REPORTS OF RESEARCH STATIONS 1942-43— Summary of the Annual Report of the Central Irrigation and Hydrodynamic Research Station Poona 5 Discussion by the 13th Research Committee.... 21 Consideration by the Central Board of Irrigation........ 22 Summary of the Annual Report of the Punjab Irrigation Research Institute Lahore 22 Discussion by the 13th Research Committee... 23 Con [...] In the case of the Ajoy Bridge some of the piers were carried downstream by the current some falling to the left and others to the right. [...] The projecting rock on the right bank was possibly one cause of the cross flow above the bridge but a more probable explanation was that the maximum flow along the outside of a river curve occurs at the "dominant discharge" which is generally of the order of half the maximum flood say 110 000 cusecs in this case ; and experience shows that when the discharge increases above the dominant discharg