{"id":85694,"date":"2019-07-18T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T10:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8196"},"modified":"2021-02-27T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T11:34:06","slug":"dam-safety-bill-gets-nod-from-ccea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dam-safety-bill-gets-nod-from-ccea\/","title":{"rendered":"Dam Safety Bill gets nod from CCEA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs\n(CCEA) has cleared the Dam Safety Bill, 2019<\/li><li>The bill aims to put in place a systematic\nprocedure to ensure that dams in India are made and maintained safely.<\/li><li>The Bill provides for the constitution of a\nNational Committee on Dam Safety. Functions of the Committee include: a) formulating\npolicies and regulations regarding dam safety standards and prevention of dam\nfailures, and b) analysing causes of major dam failures and suggesting changes\nin dam safety practices.<\/li><li>The Bill also provides for establishing a\nNational Dam Safety Authority as a regulatory body to implement the policy. The\nbill also provides for establishing State Dam safety Organizations (SDSO).<\/li><li>Functions of the SDSOs include: a) keeping\nperpetual surveillance, inspecting, and monitoring the operation and\nmaintenance of dams, b) keeping a database of all dams, and c) recommending\nsafety measures to owners of dams.<\/li><li>The Bill lays the onus of the dam safety on the\ndam owner and requires the owners of specified dams to provide a dam safety\nunit in each dam.<\/li><li>The Bill provides penalties for commission and\nomission of certain acts. Offenders will be punishable with imprisonment of up\nto one year or a fine, or both.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has cleared the Dam Safety Bill, 2019 The bill aims to put in place a systematic procedure to ensure that dams in India are made and maintained safely. The Bill provides for the constitution of a National Committee on Dam Safety. Functions of the Committee include: a) formulating&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dam-safety-bill-gets-nod-from-ccea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dam Safety Bill gets nod from CCEA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,4182],"tags":[3099],"class_list":["post-85694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-management","category-environment","tag-dam-safety-bill","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704710024},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}