Bhubaneswar: Minister, Water Resources and Commerce & Transport Tukuni Sahu launched two IT enabled 5-T official Web portals for Department of Water Resources at a programme here on Monday.
The event was attended by Additional Chief Secretary, DoWR Anu Garg, Special Secretary, of the Department Archana Pattnaik , Chief Executive, ORSAC Prafulla Kumar Mallick, OCAC authority and senior officers of the Department.
e-Jalasaya or Ama Jalasaya is a repository of all water bodies of the state, right from the smallest farm ponds to the largest reservoirs across Departments such as Water Resources like Check Dams, Barrages, MI tanks, Major and Medium reservoirs etc.
Earlier, in absence of a comprehensive database on water bodies, their geographical and spatial spread was not getting assessed; volume of water not getting quantified; inter departmental information sharing not getting done and decisions on operations and maintenance not getting clear.
Currently, data in respect of 8 major reservoirs, 37 barrages/diversion weirs, 3856 MI tanks and 15,000 check dams, belonging to this Department, have been populated in the portal. This data will be utilized for planning water use for various purposes such as drinking, agriculture and allied activities, industry etc.
“This department will try to tag the data of water bodies under Panchayatiraj & DW, Animal Resources and Fisheries, H&UD, Forest etc. liasioning with other departments to access total availability of water in the State,” Garg said.
Similarly, e-CAD, a 5-T initiative was conceived by the Department, with technical support of OCAC, for real time monitoring of CAD-PIM activities in the state for Pani Panchayats module.
This is an end-to-end process flow based automated system for all stakeholders and to track in real time formation of Pani Panchayats and to their activities, status of election & re-election; details of executive/project committee; command area; infrastructure; water use; records management; financial management; capacity building; livelihood activities; grievance redressal etc.
Pani Panchayats module consists of both Web and Android Based mobile application to facilitate the entry of the data into the system by the concerned stakeholders. A brochure on e-CAD was released on the occasion.
