Rajiv Gandhi National Ground Water
Training and Research Institute
(RGNGWTRI)
OBJECTIVES
 Capacity Building of CGWB personnel
 Capacity building of professionals from Different State Govt.
Agencies, NGOs, academic institutes etc.
 Capacity building of stakeholders at grassroots level.
 R&D Studies
About RGNGWTRI
RGNGWTRI plan scheme was first adopted during IXth
five year plan and is running continuously since 1997.
Till XI plan it was a separate Plan scheme.
In XII plan it is a component of HRD and Capacity
Building Scheme of MoWR.
Major Activities of
RGNGWTRI
Implementation of three tiered training programme
Formulation and Implementation of Annual Training
Plans for all the employees of CGWB.
R&D Studies
In addition, customised training programmes for different organizations/
countries
ORGANISATIONAL
STRCUTIRE
Chairman, CGWB
Member
(SAM)
Member
(WQ&TT)
Regional Director
Member
(RGI)
Member
(SML)
Regional Director
Total Teaching and Research Faculty
Support Staff
Member
(EDMM)
Member
(FIN)
Regional Director
:
:
12
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EXISTING STRENGTH
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1
2
3
4
Total
Type of Post
Sanctioned Filled Up Posts
Posts
Member
1
1 (CC)
Regional Director 3
3 (1 additional
charge)
Core Faculty
19
12
Support Staff
14
08
37
24
ACHIEVEMENTS OF RGNGWTRI till XI plan
S.No
Year and plan
1
IXth plan
(1997-2002)
X th plan
(2002-2007)
XI th plan
(2007-2012)
TOTAL
2
3
Training
courses
conducted
32
Person
Trained
521
Expenditure
Incurred
Rs in lacs
568.58
61
1176
262.77
128
2817
975.11
221
4514
1806.46
RGNGWTRI also organises training programmes for ground water
professionals from other countries
2006- professionals from Republic of Yemen
2011- professionals from African Countries
XII PLAN OVERVIEW
RGNGWTRI is implementing a three tier training programme.
These trainings are aimed at over all capacity building in ground water sector and
creation of a trained workforce for implementation of National Project on Aquifer
Management for sustainable development of ground water resources.
TIER-I (National Level)
TIER – II (State Level)
Tier-III (Block Level)
• professionals from Central/State Govt.
departments, Academic Institutions etc.
• Induction/mid career mandatory trainings for
employees of the Board
• State Govt. Officials, NGOs, VOs, Academic
Institutions etc
• PRIs, State Govt. Officials, NGOs, Progressive
Farmers and other stakeholders at grassroots
level
XII PLAN ACHIEVEMENTSTraining Programmes
Targets
Trainings
No of persons
trained
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
Total
168
168
168
165
117
118
453
451
17,365
14,291
7,122
38,778
Female Participants (16%)
Male Participants (84%)
In 2014-15 total targets for tier III
trainings were 350. Because of
limited financial allocations only 35
such trainings could be conducted.
ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2014-15
Besides imaprting trainings, other achievements are as follows
Completed one R&D study in an over-exploited block of
Chhattisgarh.
Developed an Android App for Dissemination of groundwater
data. It is available in google play and is under validation
stage.
Six papers and one keynote address presented in National/
International Seminars
Three Research publications in International Journals.

2014-Correlation between stratigraphy, flood plain geomorphology and arsenic
distribution on groundwater in Middle Ganga Plain, Bihar, India. Journal of
Environmental Earth Sciences

2014-Groundwater vulnerability assessment using DRASTIC and pesticides DRASTIC
models in intense agriculture area of the Gangetic Plains, India. Environmental Earth
Sciences

2014-Estimation of specific yield of individual litho units in a terrain with multiple litho
units Journal of Geological Society of India
Proposed Activities in the year 2015-16
THREE TIERED TRAINING PROGRAMME
Type of Training
Tier I
(National Level )
Tier II
(State Level)
Tier III
(Block Level)
Total
Number of
Trainings
32
Remarks
50
By RGNWTRI through the
Region Offices of CGWB
To be outsourced
350
432
By RGNGWTRI
Tier I (National Level) Training Calendar
(Highlighted Titles are exclusively for CGWB personnel to cater to the mandatory training requirements)
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Title
1
Ground Water Development
2
TOT for “Water well construction techniques and equipments”; “Maintenance of drilling and
ancillary equipments” and “Material handling, storekeeping & stores accounting”
3
Administration and Accounts (Level I)
4
Administration basics and communication skill
5
Ground Water Development & Management
6
Management Principles and Practices
7
Administration and Accounts (Level II)
8
Pumping test data analysis
9
Ground water quality, contamination and remediation
10
Water Well construction: Technology & Management
11
Project Management
12
Administration and Accounts (Level III)
13
Safety on road
14
Administration & Finance
15
Maintenance Management
16
Secretarial Practices & Communication skills (Level I)
17
Induction Level Training Course for Scientific Officers
18
Secretarial Practices & Communication skills (Level II)
19-32 Mandatory trainings on “Water well construction techniques and equipments”; “Maintenance of
drilling and ancillary equipments” and “Material handling, storekeeping & stores accounting”
Proposed R&D Studies in 2015-16
Studies on surface
watergroundwater
interaction in
collaboration with
Physical Research
Laboratory (PRL),
Ahmadabad
Studies on perchlorate
contamination in parts of Kerala in
collaboration with National Institute
of Interdisciplinary Science and
Technology (NIIST),
Thiruvananthapuram.
Studies on Artificial
Intelligence in ground
water management in
collaboration with IIT,
Kharagpur.
In-house studies for
parameter estimation
in a hardrock area in
parts of Chhattisgarh
State.
Institute Building
At present the Institute operates from a rented building at Raipur,
Chhattisgarh
Land of nearly 20 Ha has already been acquired ( 8 Ha in village Tuta
and 12 Ha in village Kendri in Naya Raipur area)
A memorandum of agreement was signed between CGWB and NPCC
for ‘Construction of building along with boundary walls for Rajiv Gandhi
National Ground Water Training and Research Institute at village Tuta
and Kendri, Naya Raipur’ . The MoA was signed on 13/02/2014.
Revised DPR submitted by NPCC has been submitted to the Ministry for
necessary approvals.
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