Welcome To Teesta and Bhagirathi Damodar Basin Organisation, Kolkata

Teesta and Bhagirathi Damodar Basin Organisation (T&BDBO) is one of the thirteen regional organisations of the Central Water Commission (CWC), an apex organisation of Government of India in the field of Water Resources Development and Management. It is a field unit of the River Management (RM) Wing of CWC. The organisation is headed by a Chief Engineer who is assisted by Superintending Engineer (Co-ordination). The Organisation consists of one Investigation Circle headed by Superintending Engineer at Gangtok, Sikkim and one Monitoring & Appraisal Directorate headed by Director at Kolkata, West Bengal.  A detailed organizational structure may  be seen at http://cwc.gov.in/tbo/tbo-structure. The jurisdiction of T&BDBO is in two States viz. Sikkim and West Bengal.

T&BDBO is entrusted with the work related to (A) Hydrological observation; collection and compilation of data; operation & maintaining Flood/Inflow Forecasting network; water quality monitoring;  on river Teesta & some more tributaries of Brahmaputra basin viz. Jaldhaka, Torsa, Raidak-I , Raidak-II & Sankosh and part of a tributary of Ganga basin i.e. Upper Mahananda and (B) Monitoring of (a) Major & Medium Irrigation Project  of various categories including (i) Prime Minister Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY) – Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP), (ii) National Projects and (iii) General  and  (b) of Command Area Development & Water Management (CAD & WM) under PMKSY – Har Khet ko pani (HKKP) Scheme; Appraisal of Medium Irrigation Projects; Appraisal and Monitoring of Scheme under Repair, Renovation and Restoration (RRR) of Wate Bodies; and monitoring of Surface Minor Irrigation (SMI) Projects under PMKSY- HKKP.

The Organisation is mandated to support the neighbouring country Bhutan by way of providing services in the field of water resources development, especially topographical surveys & geological investigation, preparation of detailed project report (DPR) of water resources/hydro-power/ flood management projects; micro-seismic data collection, hydrological and meteorological data collection and related studies etc.