Guwahati (Assam) [India], May 18 (ANI): The High-Powered Review Board (HPRB) of the Brahmaputra Board will maintain its 14th assembly on Tuesday in Guwahati to overview the progress of river basin administration initiatives and supply strategic steerage for the longer term roadmap of the Board.
The assembly shall be chaired by the Union Minister of Jal Shakti, C.R. Paatil. The Union Cabinet Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, and the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Raj Bhushan Choudhary, will attend the session.
Other Union and State Ministers, senior officers from the Centre and the North Eastern States, technical specialists, and key stakeholders will even be current through the deliberations.
This assembly holds specific significance following the latest reconstitution of the HPRB, which expanded its membership to incorporate the States of Sikkim and West Bengal.
It additionally comes amid the continued transformation of the Brahmaputra Board into a contemporary, knowledge-based River Basin Organisation (RBO).
The Board has been executing main initiatives throughout the North Eastern Region and West Bengal, particularly specializing in the preparation and updation of river basin grasp plans, flood and erosion administration, spring-shed rejuvenation, drainage improvement, digital transformation, institutional restructuring, and capability constructing.
The high-level overview will cowl the implementation standing of choices taken through the thirteenth HPRB assembly and assess the general efficiency and functioning of the Brahmaputra Board.
The Board will search coverage and strategic route on organisational restructuring, reforms in grasp plan preparation, the revitalisation of the North Eastern Hydraulic and Allied Research Institute (NEHARI), the redevelopment of the Brahmaputra Board workplace advanced at Basistha, and the strengthening of digital governance programs.
Additionally, the occasion will function the discharge of books and documentaries documenting the normal and indigenous water administration practices of Northeast India to advertise sustainable water conservation. (ANI)