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Union Minister of Jal Shakti inaugurates C-FLOOD, a Unified Inundation Forecasting System

Posted 03 Jul 2025

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C-FLOOD will act as a unified system integrating flood modelling outputs from national and regional agencies, offering a comprehensive decision-support tool for disaster management authorities.

  • Over 40 million hectares (mha) (~12% of total area) out of 329 mha is flood prone in India. 
Map showing flood Hazard Zone in India

About C-FLOOD

  • It is a web-based platform providing 2-day advance flood inundation forecasts up to village-level.
    • It uses advanced 2-D hydrodynamic modelling to simulate flood scenarios. 
  • It offers flood inundation maps and water level predictions to aid disaster preparedness.
  • Jointly developed by
    • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune. 
    • Central Water Commission (CWC), nodal organisation entrusted with the task of flood forecasting & early flood warnings in the country.
    • the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti. 
    • National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) has also collaborated in its development. 
  • Execution: Under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) 
    • NSM was launched in 2015 with the aim to empower India in supercomputing capabilities.
    • Jointly steered by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST). 
  • Present Coverage: Mahanadi, Godavari, and Tapi river basins. Planned to expand to cover all river basins across India. 
  • Forecasts to be integrated with the National Disaster Management Emergency Response Portal (NDEM).
  • Tags :
  • Flood
  • C-FLOOD
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