During this MoA signing event, Prof N K Goel, Coordinator of, Dam safety and rehabilitation program at IIT Roorkee, Prof. M L Sharma, Theme coordinator, Prof. Z. Ahmad, Theme Coordinator, and Prof. Brijesh Yadav, Head of the Department of Hydrology were also present. Prof. K. K. Pant, Director of IIT Roorkee joined the event online. 

The MoA was signed by Vijay Saran, Chief Engineer, DSO and Project Director, DRIP Phase II and III and Prof Akshay Dvivedi, Dean of Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy on behalf of CWC and IIT Roorkee, respectively.

A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed between Central Water Commission and Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) for establishing the International Centre of Excellence for Dams (ICED) at IIT Roorkee on February 14, 2023, in Shram Shakti Bhawan, Ministry of Jal Shakti, New Delhi. This MoA signing event was chaired by Shri Pankaj Kumar, Secretary, Department of Water Resources, RD&GR(DoWR,RD&GR) Ministry of Jal Shakti in the gracious presence of Prof U P Singh, Deputy Director, IIT Roorkee, Mrs Debashri Mukherjee, Special Secretary,DoWR,RD&GR, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Shri Anand Mohan, Joint Secretary, DoWR, RD&GR,Ministry of Jal Shakti, Sh Kushvinder Vohra, Chairman Central Water Commission, Sh Sanjay Kumar Sibal, Member D&R.
 
The MoA was signed by Vijay Saran, Chief Engineer, DSO and Project Director, DRIP Phase II and III and Prof Akshay Dvivedi, Dean of Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy on behalf of CWC and IIT Roorkee, respectively.
 
This International Center of Excellence for Dams will be focusing on different safety and rehabilitation aspects of Dams, like Hydrological, Hydraulic, Structural, Geotechnical, seismic safety evaluation, and reservoir sedimentation & silt control, etc. This Center is being developed to create manpower having sufficient background and expertise in the area of Dam Safety. This Center will be developed to deal with the complete life cycle of the dam in the longer run. Under this MoA, the Ministry of Jal Shakti under DRIP Phase II and III has provided a Grant of Rs 108.99 crores to IIT Roorkee for establishing this Center of Excellence for dams.

During this MoA signing event, Prof N K Goel, Coordinator of, Dam safety and rehabilitation program at IIT Roorkee, Prof. M L Sharma, Theme coordinator, Prof. Z. Ahmad, Theme Coordinator, and Prof. Brijesh Yadav, Head of the Department of Hydrology were also present. Prof. K. K. Pant, Director of IIT Roorkee joined the event online.