Area: Exploration, Assessment and Management of Groundwater Resources

 

Project Title	Groundwater management in hard rock aquifers including resource augmentation and protection from geochemical contamination
Project Number	MLP-5302-28 (SA)
Project Leader	Dr. Shakeel Ahmed
Co-Project Leader
Duration	April 2007 to March 2012

 Objectives

• Evaluation of structure and functioning of hard rock aquifers at different scales (wells to catchment) and development of tools for numerical simulation of flow in fractured aquifer system under normal and enhanced stress conditions.

• Evolution of management schemes for long term and optimal utilization of available resources as well as simulating and analyzing the cost-effective augmentation of groundwater resource.

• Development of cost-effective recharge enhancement methodologies.

• Monitoring and analyses of geo-chemical contamination (mainly Fluoride), simulation of rock-water interaction and its migration as well as designing of suitable measures for groundwater protection.

• Study of socio-economic viability of various groundwater management schemes including agri-changes etc.

 

S&T Staff

S.No.	Name(s)	Designation	E-mail	Phone No.
1.	Dr. Shakeel Ahmed	Scientist-G	shakeelahmed@ngri.res.in; shakeelifcgr@gmail.com	23434657
2.	Mr.M.R.K. Sarma	T.O.EII		23434700 extn. 2605
3.	Mr.Syed Ali	T.O. EI		23434625
4.	Dr.Subash Chandra	Scientist-C	schandra75@gmail.com chandra_s75@ngri.res.in	23434700 extn. 2644
5.	Dr.Dewashish Kumar	Scientist-C	dewashishkumar@ngri.res.in; dew_kumar@yahoo.co.uk	23434700 extn. 2636
6.	Dr. N.V. Seshamma	T.O.B		23434700 extn. 2560
7.	Mr.Abdul Khaleel	S.T.A		23434700 extn. 2645
8.	Mr.E. Nagaiah	S.T.A	enaga_k05@yahoo.co.in	23434700 extn. 2560

 

 

Brief Highlights

 

A.     Latest Achievement

1. Development of Decision Support Tool – DST-GW ver 1.1 for groundwater management
2. Geophysical investigations for

(i)                 very deep aquifer in granites

(ii)               Zeolites formations may be potential aquifers

(iii)              delineating Arsenic contaminated aquifer in Ganga Basin

 

B.     Latest Publications

1. Krishnamurthy, N.S., Rao, V.A., Kumar, D., Singh, K.K.K., and Ahmed, S., 2009. Electrical Resistivity Imaging Technique to Delineate Coal Seam Barrier Thickness and Demarcate Water Filled Voids, J Geol Soc India, 73(5):639-650.

2.     Sreekanth, P.D., Geethanjali, N., Sreedevi, P.D., Ahmed S., Ravi Kumar N and Jayanthi P.D.K. 2009. Forecasting groundwater level using Artificial Neural networks, Curr Sci India, 96(7):933-939.

 

3.      Sreedevi P.D., Owais, S., Khan, H.H and Ahmed, S., 2009. Morphometric analysis of a watershed of south India using SRTM data and GIS, J Geol Soc India, 73(4):543-552.