Guwahati, Aug. 19 -- The Assam Government has taken a significant step towards building advanced technical capacity to address the state's long-standing challenges of perennial flooding, flood risk, riverbank erosion, and sustainable water resource management.

Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on May 22 between the Water Resources Department (WRD), Government of Assam, and the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), a two-year, part-time online Master of Technology (MTech) programme in Flood and Water Resources Management has been launched.

The programme is exclusively designed for in-service engineers of WRD as well as engineers from other departments who wish to pursue it.

Marking the commencement o...