{"id":1067,"date":"2026-04-06T06:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:16:43","slug":"central-water-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/central-water-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Water Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#199668\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Central Water Commission<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>About<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Central Water Commission (erstwhile Central Waterways, Irrigation and Navigation Commission) was&nbsp;established&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>1945&nbsp;<\/strong>as the&nbsp;<strong>apex technical&nbsp;organisation&nbsp;in the field of water resources development.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group border-list\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Did you know?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list listborder\">\n<li>The Commission was\u00a0established\u00a0by the Government in 1945 on the advice of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Member (Labour) in Viceroy&#8217;s Executive Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is presently functioning as an attached office of the\u00a0<strong>Ministry of Jal Shakti<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Commission is entrusted with the general responsibilities of\u00a0<strong>initiating, and furthering<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>schemes for control,\u00a0conservation\u00a0and\u00a0utilization\u00a0of water resources<\/strong>\u00a0throughout the country, for the purpose of Flood Control, Irrigation, Navigation, Drinking Water Supply and Water Power Development.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CWC is headed by a<strong>\u00a0Chairman<\/strong>, with the status of<strong>\u00a0Ex-Officio Secretary to the Government of India.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The headquarters of CWC\u00a0is located in\u00a0<strong>New Delhi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Water Commission About Did you know?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organisations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}