IWDS 2025

Advisory Board

Advisory Board

Shri A B Pandya
Secretary General, ICID and Former Chairman, CWC

Shri J. Chandrashekhar Iyer
Former Chairman, CWC and NDSA

Dr D Thareja
former Member Design and Research, CWC, and head SNC Lavalin Hydro

Dr M.K. Sinha
Chairman, Godavari River Management Board

Shri Raj Kumar Chaudhary
Chairman & Managing Director, National Hydro Power Corporation Ltd., Faridabad

Prof. Basant Maheshwari
Distinguished Professor (Water, Environment & Sustainability), Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia

Prof. Prem Lal Patel
Director, VNIT, Nagpur

Prof. Sudhanshu Panda
Institute for Environmental & Spatial Analysis, University of North Georgia, USA

Dr. M. K. Goel
Director, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee

Dr C Rajgopal Singh
Sr WR Engineer and Team Task Leader DRIP, World Bank

Prof. M L Sharma
Head, International Centre of Excellence for Dams, Head, Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Dr R N Sankhua
Member (KRMB), Ministry of Jal Shakti (WR, RD & GR), Govt of India

Prof. V. V. Srinivas
Professor, Civil Engineering Dept., IISC, Bangalore

Dr. Chandra Shekhar  Padhi
Engineer-In-Chief, Water Resources Dept., Odisha

Dr. Tirupati Bolisetti
Professor. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Dr R K Gupta
Former Chairman, CWC

Shri Anil K Jain
Chairman, NDSA

Shri V K Kapadia
former Secy, Govt of Gujarat

Shri V K Saran
Chief Engineer, Dam Safety Organisation, CWC

Shri Rakesh Kashyap
Chief Engineer and PD DRIP, CWC

Shri N N Rai
Chief Engineer, CWC, Gujarat

Shri B Nagendra Rao 
Engineer-in-Chief (O&M and Quality Control)

Shri Sahadev Khatua
Former MD, NHPC

Prof. Bitanjaya Das
Senior Professor, School of Civil Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University