To provide technical and professional advice to the Ministry of Water and Power (now Ministry of Water Resources) in the field of: Irrigation, Drainage, Flood Control, Dams Safety, Hydro Power and Power Generation and Allied Engineering matters.
To prepare and implement integrated national flood protection plans for the country, standardization of designs and specifications of flood works to ensure technically sound protection, monitoring for quality control of works, improvement in the flood forecasting and warning capabilities of concerned organizations, SOPs for reservoir operations, research in water resources & flood management.
