| Harish Rawat Inaugurates Exhibition At 2nd India Water Week |
| Union Water Resources Minister Shri Harish Rawat today inaugurated at exhibition at the 2nd India Water Week. The exhibition is intended to show case the technology, latest development and solutions in improving efficiencies in the sectors of agriculture & irrigation, water supply and energy generation for benefiting various stockholders and general public. The exhibition has a wide spectrum of product and service providers aggregating to more than 50 from the world over. The exhibition will also provide a specialized venue for hearing about new materials and techniques in dam rehabilitation and improvement. It will also provide the Small & Medium Enterprises an international platform & a world class exposure, to develop their skills & providing them the accurate knowledge to increase their profits & by teaching them the corrective measures to grow & adopting the new & advanced technology. Besides, identifying, encouraging the progress in the Water Industry and the allied ministries. The participants include several departments under the administrative control of Ministry of Water Resources. These include : Damodar Valley Corporation (Kolkata-West Bengal), Central Water and Power Research Station (Pune-Maharashtra), Central Board of Irrigation & Power (New Delhi), Central Soil and Materials Research Station (CSMRS) (New Delhi), Central Ground Water Board (Faridabad-Haryana), Central Water Commission (New Delhi), Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Aspplications and Ge-Informatics (Gandhinagar-Gujrat) and Bramhaputra Board (Guwahati-Assam. Besides, a number of Private Companies engaged in manufacturing Water purification and water detecting devices have also erected their stalls in the exhibition. |
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