Daily Current Affairs – 14-07-2025

Tamil Nadu News

Web-based flood forecasting system

⇢ Union Minister CR Patil has launched C-FLOOD, a web-based flood forecasting system at Shram Shakti Bhawan in New Delhi.

⇢ The system, executed under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), was jointly developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the Central Water Commission (CWC).

⇢ The platform:

§ Uses advanced 2D hydrodynamic modelling to simulate flood scenarios

§ Provides flood forecasts up to the village level two days in advance using flood inundation maps and water level predictions.

⇢ It currently covers the Mahanadi, Godavari and Tapi river basins.