Jal Shakti Ministry launches NETRA AI platform and RBSD for Dam Safety

Key facts

• Union Jal Shakti Minister C. R. Paatil inaugurated the new office of the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) at R.K. Puram, New Delhi.
• The Minister launched NETRA (NDSA Engine for Tracking and Review using AI), an artificial intelligence-enabled platform developed in collaboration with the Weapons and Electronics Systems Engineering Establishment (WESEE) of the Indian Navy.
• NETRA is integrated with DHARMA, the national repository of dam safety data covering more than 6,600 specified dams and thousands of inspection reports.
• The Rashtriya Bandh Suraksha Darpan (RBSD) visualisation platform, developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), was launched to present Dam Break Analysis (DBA) results through digital mapping.
• A new NDSA website was launched featuring a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based Specified Dams section to provide map-based information on dams across the country.
• Rooftop solar power plants with capacities of less than 25 kilowatts were remotely inaugurated across seven buildings of the Central Water Commission (CWC).