C‑FLOOD – INDIA’S FIRST UNIFIED FLOOD FORECASTING PLATFORM

Current Context: Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil launched C‑FLOOD on 2 July 2025 in New Delhi. It provides two-day inundation forecasts at village level.

ABOUT C‑FLOOD

• Agencies Involved: Developed by C-DAC Pune, Central Water Commission (CWC), and NRSC—under the National Hydrology Project and the National Supercomputing Mission.
• Coverage: Initial focus on the Mahanadi, Godavari, and Tapi basins, with plans to include other river systems.
• Features & Functionality:
• Offers 2-day advance flood forecasts through maps and water-level predictions up to village-level.
• Integrates national and regional flood models into a unified decision‑support system.
• Based on 2-D hydrodynamic modelling using HPC at C‑DAC Pune and NRSC models.
• Government Directives:
  • Portal to be integrated with the National Disaster Management Emergency Response (NDEM)
  • Emphasis on satellite validation, ground-truthing, widespread awareness, and continuous technical enhancement