Annual Report (Technical) of the Central Board of Irrigation India 1947

The discussions constitute the technical zIrlfceedings of : (1) The seventeenth annual meeting of the Research Committee of the Board herd in Simla (corn July 7 to 12 1947 and (ii) The eighteenth annall meeting of the Central Board of Irrigation held in Delhi from December 1 to (; 1947. [...] indiction of the great importance which our people and the Government attach to the development of water land and power resources of the country and the useful work the Central Board of Irrigation is doing in this respect. [...] They constitute a tremendous waste of national wealth)The re vages caused by the floods of the Kosi in Bihar and Nepal ; DamoIar in the Bengal ; the Mahanadi Bra hniini and Baitarani in Orissa ; th.9 Bhtrauli Manas Kopilli and other tributary rivers of the Brahmaputra in Assam the Narbada and Tapti in Bombay and several other major and 'minor rivers in the other Provinces and States of India [...] The catastrophic floods which occurred in the $utlej Bees Ravi and Chenab rivers of the Punjab in late September 1947 added immensely to the toll of human life already taken by fanaticism a r d human savagery.6 ME CENTRAL BOARD OF IRRIGATION ANNUAL REPORT 1947 Floods are caused by the natural phenomenon of rainfall supplemented in the case of the Himalayan rivers by the melting of snows. [...] Our ideas of productivity of a project must be viewed in the light of these vital needs." PUBLICITY AND PROPAGANDA The ultimate objective of all resource conservation and development plans is to raise the standard of living of the common man.