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The department was established in 1955 as an Asian African Centre to honour India's commitment at the Asian African Conference held in Bandung. The department offers application based Postgraduate Degree programmes in Water Resources Development and Irrigation Water Management primarly for imparting training to in-service Engineers (Civil, Electrical and Mechanical) and Agricultural Scientists. Sponsorship from the organisation is essential for obtaining admission to various programmes in the department. A balanced blend of academicans and field engineers in the faculty with long experience in planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of water resources and hydropower projects help in implementation of application oriented academic programmes. The department is actively involved in research, development and extension activities in the areas of water resources, hydropower and irrigation management. The department provides consultancy services for irrigation, flood control, drainage, groundwater development and power sectors. The objective of the Department is to develop mainpower that can take the responsibility of sustainable development and environment friendly management of the available water resources. Non-conventional methods for utilisation of water such as cropping system modeling & planning, inter-basin transfer, ground water recharge through rainwater harvesting are espepecially incorporated in the course curricula. The department has so far trained over 2469 in service engineers and agriculutral scientists from 48 countries including India as listed below:

 

S.No. Name of Country  WRD IWM Total   S.No. Name of Country  WRD IWM Total
1 Afghanistan 25 6 31   25 Maldives 1 - 1
2 Bangladesh  13 4 17   26 Mauritius 1 - 1
3 Brazil 1 - 1   27 Mangolia - 1 1
4 Bhutan  - 2 2   28 Myanmar 13 2 15
5 China 3 - 3   29 Nicaragua 1 - 1
6 Costarica 1   1   30 Nepal 82 23 105
7 Cuba - 1 1   31 Panama 1 - 1
8 Egypt 7 - 7   32 Pakistan 1 - 1
9 Eritrea   1 1   33 Philippines 33 9 42
10 Ethiopia 12 3 15   34 Sengal - 1 1
11 Ghana 8 1 9   35 Sierra Leone 2 - 2
12 Guyana - 1 1   36 South Korea 3 - 3
13 India 1329 158 1487   37 Singapore 1 - 1
14 Indonesia 444 55 499   38 Sri Lanka 26 8 34
15 Iran 1 - 1   39 Sudan 28 5 33
16 Iraq 13 1 14   40 Syria 10 - 10
17 Japan 1 - 1   41 Tanzania 7 1 8
18 Jordan 2 - 2   42 Thailand 18 2 20
19 Kenya 4 1 5   43 UAE 1 - 1
20 Kazhakistan - 2 2   44 Uganda  1 - 1
21 Lao PDR 3 6 9   45 Uzbekistan 3 5 8
22 Liberia 1 - 1   46 Vietnam 41 11 52
23 Malawi 3 - 3   47 Yeman 3 2 5
24 Malaysia 6 1 7   48 Zambia 2 - 2
              Grand Total 2156 313 2469