Welcome to Indian Institute of Soil Water Conservation

Division of Hydrology & Engineering

Mandates Of The Division

Advancement of science and understanding of hydrological processes for sustainable land and water resources management.
Innovative engineering solutions for design, construction, and maintenance of soil and water conservation structures and practicesunder changing climate.

Important Activities

Important Achievements

Development of runoff monitoring device: A runoff monitoring device has been developed which can be used to measure stage of flow at pre-determined time interval. Using the value of stage in defined cross section channel, discharge can be estimated. The instrument give runoff with the accuracy of 3-5 mm. The measurement of discharge can be taken at an interval of 5 to 100 seconds or any desire time interval. The recorded data can be stored into the SD card of required duration.
Developed and published Rainwater Harvesting Potential database of 15 States of India.
Watershed scale model developed for spring recharge and impacts of climate and land use change scenarios
A methodology for sustainable extraction of River Bed Materials (RBM) has been developed, which is being used by the State government for revenue generation, flood moderation and minimizing risk of stream bank erosion.
Soil erodibility factor (K-factor) map of India has been development, which is useful for prediction of potential soil erosion at different locations.Product development: Topographical factor (LS-factor) map of India has been developed which will be utilized to estimate potential soil erosion in India.
04 watersheds have been treated for sustainable agriculture and livelihood improvements.
Restoration of mined spoil area using bio-engineering measures:Mine spoil area of 64 ha was rejuvenated / restored. Soil loss reduced from 55 t/ha in case of untreated to 2-3 t/ha after restoration of the area.
Software for design of grassed waterway, contour bund and farm ponds have been prepared and being used by the stakeholder.
Development of stratification ratio of soil organic matter as soil quality indicator for Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP)of India. Conservation agriculture (CA) stratifies soil organic carbon and total nitrogen and helps enhance SOC sequestration and soil quality.
Development of methodology for application of machine learning to link soil quality to rice productivity. The interpretable machine learning techniques could be used in long-term fertilizer experiments to unravel the most meaningful information, and also, the technique can be used in similar long-term experiments.
Hydraulic conductivity characteristics under different tillage practices has been established. The temporal dynamics of soil hydraulic properties (SHPs) under different tillage regimes indicate that ZT can be a suitable tillage practice for reducing runoff and soil loss in monsoon maize and winter wheat cropping systems.

Ongoing Projects

Services

Staff Details (Name/ Designation/Specialization/ E-Mail/Phone)

S.No	Name	Designation	Specialization	E-mail	Phone
1.	Dr. R.K. Singh	Principal Scientist and Head	Land and Water Management Engineering	Rajesh [dot] Singh [at] icar [dot] gov [dot] in rksingh [underscore] ars [at] yahoo [dot] com	9436731762
2.	Dr. P. R. Ojasvi	Principal Scientist	Land and Water Management Engineering	pr [dot] ojasvi [at] icar [dot] gov [dot] in	7060225085
3.	Dr. Sridhar Patra	Senior Scientist	Land and Water Management Engineering	Mail2sridharpatra [at] gmail [dot] com Sridhar [dot] Patra [at] icar [dot] gov [dot] in	7579488084
4.	Dr. Deepak Singh	Scientist	Land and Water Management Engineering	Deepak [dot] Singh2 [at] icar [dot] gov [dot] in dpk905 [at] gmail [dot] com	9427792842
5.	Dr. Uday Mandal	Senior Scientist	Land and Water Management Engineering	uday [dot] mandal [at] icar [dot] gov [dot] in udaymandal [underscore] icar [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] in	7579043146
6.	Sh. Umesh Chandra Tiwari	Sr. technical officer	Diploma in Agricultural Engineering	ututiwari [at] gmail [dot] com	9997545443
7.	Harvirendra Singh	Technical officer	Two Years Diploma	hvsbhatia [at] gmail [dot] com	9412319856
8.	Amit Kumar	Technician	Field/farm technician	Amitkr2285 [at] gmail [dot] com	9999805181
9.	Mukesh Kumar	Technician	Field/farm technician	Mukesh [dot] kumar10 [at] icar [dot] gov [dot] in	9410131826
10.	Chandan Roy	Technical Assistant	Workshop and Engineering	chandanroy [dot] bankura [at] gmail [dot] com	9996554123