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Mandate

Water Resources Planning Act (1992)

  • To provide administrative, technical, and legal support to the ECNWRC.
  • To advise the ECNWRC on policy, planning, and regulatory matters of water resources and related land and environmental management.
  • To prepare and periodically update the National Water Management Plan.
  • To setup and update the National Water Resources Database (NWRD) and Information Management System.
  • To act as a "clearing house" for all water sector projects identified by different agencies and reporting to the ECNWRC on their conformity to the NWMP.
  • To undertake any special study, as may be required by the ECNWRC, for fulfilling the objectives and programmes envisaged in the National Water Policy and the Bangladesh Water and Flood Management Strategy.

National Water Policy (1999)

 

National Water Policy (1999) declared WARPO as apex organization for macro planning in the country and also Secretariat to Executive committee to National Water Resources Council (ECNWRC); the policy gave clear mandate on the following:

  1. To provide administrative, technical, and legal support to the ECNWRC.
  2. To advise the ECNWRC on policy, planning, and regulatory matters of water resources and related land and environmental management.
  3. To prepare and periodically update the National Water Management Plan.
  4. To setup and update the National Water Resources Database (NWRD) and Information Management System.
  5. To act as a “clearing house” for all water sector projects identified by different agencies and reporting to the ECNWRC on their conformity to the NWMP.
  6. To undertake any special study, as may be required by the ECNWRC, for fulfilling the objectives and programmes envisaged in the National Water Policy and the Bangladesh Water and Flood Management Strategy.

Coastal zone policy (CZPo 2005)

 

  • To co-ordinate the development initiatives taken by different agencies in the coastal zone;
  • To establish of Program Co-ordination Unit (PCU).

Bangladesh Water Act 2013

 

  1. Act as Secretariat to Executive committee of National Water Resources Council (NWRC)
  2. Periodically the water resources and its use and identify water stress Area and safe yield
  3. Provide technical clearance of water sector projects proposal
  4. Provide permit/licenses of water abstraction for projects and industrial and commercial purposes
  5. Monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of Bangladesh Water Act