**Summary:**
The Ministry of Jal Shakti has launched a web-based CFlood platform to provide advance inundation forecasts. This platform offers two-day advance inundation forecasts up to the village level, presented as inundation maps and water level predictions.
**Key Features:**
* Integrates flood inundation output from 2D hydrodynamic modeling, providing extent and depth information.
* Serves as a unified inundation information system, integrating flood modeling outputs from national and regional agencies across river basins.
* Initially covers the Godavari, Tapi, and Mahanadi River Basins.
* Supports Hindi, English, and Odia languages.
* Provides inundation information up to the village level.
* Issues flood alerts based on inundation depth: Yellow Alert (below 0.5m), Orange Alert (below 1.5m), and Red Alert (exceeding 1.5m).
**Source:**
Information provided by THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI SHRI RAJ BHUSHAN CHOUDHARY in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today. (MAMSMP Rajya Sabha US Q875, Release ID: 2149301, Posted On: 28 JUL 2025)
Key Entities Referenced
Ministry of Jal Shakti: The Indian government ministry responsible for water resources.
CFlood: A web-based platform for inundation forecasting.
Godavari River Basin: A river basin in India for which inundation forecasts are provided by CFlood.
Tapi River Basin: A river basin in India for which inundation forecasts are provided by CFlood.
Mahanadi River Basin: A river basin in India for which inundation forecasts are provided by CFlood.
Rajya Sabha: The Upper House of the Parliament of India, where a question about CFlood was answered.
Raj Bhushan Choudhary: The Minister of State for Jal Shakti who provided information regarding the CFlood platform.
Delhi: Location of Press Information Bureau (PIB).
Ministry of Jal Shakti
WEB BASED C-FLOOD PLATFORM FOR
INUNDATION FORECASTING
Posted On: 28 JUL 2025 4:25PM by PIB Delhi
Government has launched/inaugurated a web-based C-Flood platform. It provides two days advance
inundation forecasts up to village level in the form of inundation maps and water level predictions. The salient
features of C-flood web-based platform are:
C-Flood integrates flood inundation output information derived from advanced 2D hydrodynamic
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modelling with extent and depth information.
It has been designed to serve as an unified inundation information system integrating flood
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modelling outputs from national and regional agencies for all river basins as per their respective
action plans. It covers inundation forecasts for the Godavari, Tapi and Mahanadi River Basins in
initial phase.
The web-portal supports three-language, namely, Hindi, English & Odia in initial phase.
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It includes inundation forecast for the next two days. It shows inundation information up to the
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village level.
It indicates three categories of Flood Alerts based on the inundation depth: Yellow Alert indicates
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inundation below 0.5m, an Orange Alert corresponds to depths below 1.5m, and a Red Alert
signifies inundation exceeding 1.5m.
This information was provided by THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI SHRI RAJ BHUSHAN
CHOUDHARY in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
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MAM/SMP
(Rajya Sabha US Q875)
(Release ID: 2149301)