Rajendra Kumar Jain
1. Name: Rajendra Kumar Jain
2. Designation: Chairman, Central Water Commission & Chairman, Cauvery Water Management Authority
3. Educational Qualification: B.E.(Civil) Hons. 1982 (MREC Jaipur) M.Tech. (Water Resources Development) (2010 from IIT, Roorkee)
4. Date of Joining CWES: 07 June 1985
5. Membership of Professional Societies:
(i) Life Fellow of India Water Resources Society (IWRS)
(ii) Life Member of International Network on Participatory Irrigation Management (INPIM)
6. International Trainings/assignments:
(i) 8 weeks training programme on MIKE 11 and NAM models at Danish Hydraulics Institute, Denmark in June-July, 1999
(ii) 4 weeks training programme of USAID at Hartford University, Hartford (USA), on Project Monitoring and Evaluation in July, 2004.
(iii) Joint observation in river Ganges at Hardinge bridge, Bangladesh in March- April, 1998 as team leader of the Indian team.
(iv) 3 weeks training on “Managing Water Organizations” at IHE, Delft, Netherlands in March, 2016.
7. Details of Experience:
i) Overseeing the various activities related to planning and development of water resources of the country and management of the Central Water Commission as a whole, as Chairman of Central Water Commission (CWC).
ii) Management and regulation of water resources of Cauvery river as Chairman of Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA).
iii) Construction of Polavaram Irrigation Project through Government of AP.
iv) Regulation of water resources of Godavari and Krishna basins and resolution of conflicts between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States.
v) Basin-wise assessment of water resources potential and IWRM studies.
vi) Hydrological Observations and Flood Forecasting.
vii) Monitoring of construction of water resources projects.
viii) Real time operation of Maithon and Panchet reservoirs and regulation of water resources of Damodar Valley Reservoir system among various stake holders.
ix) Implementation of Command Area Development and Management Programmein Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
x) Techno-economic appraisal of irrigation and multi-purpose projects.
xi) Design of civil structures of thermal power stations.
