National Hydrology Project (NHP) was started in the year 2016 as a Central Sector Scheme with 100% grant to Implementing agencies on pan India basis with a budget outlay of Rs 3680 Crore to be spent over a period of 8 years.
The project aims at improving the extent, reliability and accessibility of water resources information and to strengthen the capacity of targeted water resource management institutions in India.
Thus NHP is facilitating acquisition of reliable information efficiently, which would pave the way for an effective water resource development and management.
The Project, has made significant progress in the fields of
Water resource monitoring system,
water resource information system (WRIS),
water resource operation and planning systems and
institutional capacity enhancement.
Under the NHP, a nationwide repository of water resources data - NWIC has been established.
NHP is focusing on establishment of real time data acquisition system (RTDAS) on pan India basis.
The Real time data acquisition system, the near real time data acquisition system and the manual data acquisition stations would complement each other and would lay a strong foundation for informed decision making for better water resources management.
All such data would be available through web enabled India WRIS which is being upscale under the NHP.
NHP is a project of National importance since it establishes a Nationwide ‘Nodal’ ‘one point’ platform for all states to collaborate and share data pertaining to water resources.