Map India 2003: Seminar on Water Resources

Keynote Session 09:30 – 11:00 hrs
Chairperson	Radha Singh Additional Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources
Speakers	S S Meenakshisundaram Secretary, Drinking Water Supply, Ministry of Rural Development J K Banthia Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India Rear Admiral KR Srinivasan Chief Hydrographer to the Govt of India
11:00 – 11:30 hrs Tea Break
Technical Session I: Water Resources Planning 11:30 – 13:00 hrs
Chairperson	Dr. R C Panda Joint Secretary (Drinking Water Supply), Ministry of Rural Development
Co-Chair	B S Negi Assistant Commissioner, Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development

Speakers	Water Resources - Thirsty India's Urgent Need M M Dutta Proposed plan for Satluj - Ghaggar - Yamuna - Jojari - Luni - Sabarmati River link channels Narpat Singh Rathore “WARIS” - Water and Land Resources Information and Decision Support System Rajashree V Bothale, Vinod M Bothale, J R Sharma, S Adiga A GIS-Remote Sensing compatible rainfall-surface runoff model for regional level planning Chiradeep Adhikari Designing Decision Support Systems To Aid Irrigation Water Planning And Management In Command Areas Vimal Garg, Ritu Seth Integrated Approach for development of Water Resources Action Plan in parts of Nainital District, Uttaranchal using Remote Sensing, Geophysical and GIS techniques Vibhu Sarin, Sudhakar Shukla, Rajiva Mohan A knowledge based approach for prioritisation of water harvesting Structures - A Case study of Andhra pradesh forest Department Hitesh Malhotra, I V Muralikrishna, A K Naik, A Rama Murthy
13:00 – 14:00 hrs Lunch Break
Technical Session II: Ground Water 14:00 – 15:00 hrs
Chairperson	N T S Wijesekera Director, GIS Application Centre, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

Speakers	Use of Remote sensing in ground water modeling Rohit Goyal, A N Arora An integrated approach of Remote Sensing, Geophysics and GIS to evaluation of groundwater potentiality of Ojhala subwatershed, Mirzapur district, U.P., India Amaresh Kr Singh, S Ravi Prakash Role of Remote Sensing and GIS in identifying artificial recharge zones of upper Kodavanar river basin, Tamilnadu. T Vasanthakumaran, Shyamala R, Sridhar K Geomorphological and ground water study in Eastern Doon Valley and its surroundings using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques. S K Srivastav, Rizwan Ahmed, D K Mandal
Technical Session III: Watershed Management 15:00 – 16:00 hrs


Speakers	Remote sensing based rapid watershed health appraisal – a case study of NWDPRA watersheds of Rajasthan D Dutta, J R Sharma, S Narasimhan, S Adiga An integrated Watershed Management - Geomatics Approach Palepu Sreenivasa Rao, G Ramesh, G Wara Prasad, Peter Jal-Chitra: An introduction Vikram Vyas
16:00 – 16:30 hrs Tea Break