Project Monitoring Activities (March - December 2018)

In order to mentor/monitor the project activities a Project Monitoring Committee was appointed involving senior staff to carryout regular project monitoring activitiy. The PMC involves the following staff to meet regularly and monitor the activities of the centre.

1.	Prof . R.Sundaravadivelu, Department of Ocean Engineering - Chairman
2.	Prof. B.S. Murthy, Department of Civil Engineering - Member
3.	Prof. G. Ravindra Gettu, Dean (IC & SR) - Member
4.	Prof. K. Murali, Department of Ocean Engineering - Member Secretary & Team Leader

1.	The first PMC Meeting was conducted on 24th April 2018 to discuss the administrative requirement for setting up of the 11 projects and also the manpower requirements for handling these projects apart from day to day affairs of the centre.
2.	The first stakeholder's workshop on NTCPWC was conducted on 28th April 28, 2018 at IIT Madras. The workshop focused on the strategic plan of the centre, technology developments and also the activities that will be carried out under the different sub-projects planned as part of the centre activity.
3.	The first review meeting of the NTCPWC was held on 13th June 2018 to discuss the office space and the research facility lab requirements.
4.	The second review meeting of the NTCPWC was held on 23rd June 2018 to review the office space and the research facility lab requirements.
5.	The first oversight committee meeting was held on the 5th July 2018 to review the overall project progress of NTCPWC and also the infrastructure, research facilities and projects in key areas from ports and inland waterways.
6.	The second PMC meeting was held on the 14th Jan 2019.
7.	The second oversight committee meeting was held on the 21st Jan 2019 to review the overall project progress of NTCPWC and also the infrastructure, research facilities and projects in key areas from ports and inland waterways.
8.	The third PMC meeting was held on the 24th June 2019.
9.	The third oversight committee meeting was held on the 08th July 2019 to review the overall project progress of NTCPWC and also the infrastructure, research facilities and projects in key areas from ports and inland waterways.
10.	The fourth oversight committee meeting was held on the 05th November 2019 to review the overall project progress of NTCPWC and also the infrastructure, research facilities and projects in key areas from ports and inland waterways.

Infrastructure

The proposed location for setting up the NTCPWC will be at the Discovery campus located in Thaiyur, about 40 kms from the present IITM campus.


Interim arrangements were made in present campus at New Academic Complex located in IITM campus to accommodate Office space, Full bridge simulator and High Performance Computing laboratory.
Design layout and the Seating arrangement at NAC, IITM campus.
NTCPWC - Port Centre at Thaiyur

Full Bridge Simulator

Costing

The Studies and Value offering for Ports and Waterways detailed below in the Table-1

S.No	Details on Expert studies	Studies Cost(Range in Rs.Lakhs)	Unit
1.	Ports & Waterways
a.	Pre & Post dredging & Disposal monitoring	0.25-0.30	day
b.	Dredging optimization studies	15-30	Port/site
c.	Navigations design & Maneuvering	12-25	Port/site
d.	Siltation studies	8-15	Port/site
e.	Marine support facilities-terminals; protection; intake & outfall	8-12	Port/site

2.	Coastal Structures
a.	Advection-dispersion studies	6-12	Port/site
b.	Management of Coastal structures (Groins, Breakwaters and Wharves)	8-15	Port/site
c.	Monitoring of Nearshore process	0.25-0.50	Day

3.	Coastal Engineering
a.	Hydrodynamics studies	6-12	Port/site
b.	Wave, Current and Sediment modelling	8-15	Port/site
c.	Shoreline and beach dynamics	6-12	Port/site

4.	Coastal Disaster Mitigation
a.	Modelling of storm surges and tsunamis	8-30	Port/site
b.	Inundation and Protection of shoreline and inlet	8-15	Port/site

5.	Information Technology and Geospatial System development
a.	System design and System Architecture studies	20-25	day
b.	Workflows & System integration	120-150	Port/site
c.	Geographic Information Systems	45-80	Port/site
d.	Seamless Web based & Smart device based information retrieval	15-30

Table below describes the cost discount applicable for the different port sectors based on site specific and engineering studies and solutions

S.No	Port and Waterways sector	Cost Discount (%)
1.	Minor Port & Government Agencies	15%
2.	Waterways	20%
3.	Major Port	20%
4.	Private sector ports	Not applicable

Procurement

The following activities has been completed.

S.No	Name of the tender	Status	Link
1.	HPC Cluster	Through two bid system the tender was opened on 27.06.2018 for procuring the HPC Cluster
2.	Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter	Issued purchase order : OEC / KMUR / 2018 / 1085 / SPLX / 771 dated 14.09.2018
3.	Furniture - Tables	Purchase order issued 21.08.2018 (02 Nos) and 23.08.2018 (04 Nos)PO No: OED/2018/1078 to 1083/KMUR/SPLX Delivery Schedule = 1st week of October 2018
4.	Furniture - Chairs	Purchase order issued 03.09.2018 PO No: OED/2018/1091 to 1093/KMUR/SPLX and OED/2018/1100/KMUR/SPLX dt. 10.09.2018 OED/2018/1101/KMUR/SPLX dt. 10.09.2018 Delivery Schedule = 1st week of October 2018
5.	Bridge Simulator	Vendor presentation & Financial bid opening 30th Nov 2018	More Info

FIELD RESEARCH LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS

No	Instrument
1	Single Beam Echo Sounder
2	Horizontal Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
3	Current Meter
4	Motion Sensor
5	Trimble R10 HD GNSS Receiver
6	Differential GPS
7	FPGA Based Real Time Embedded Controller
8	NI Modules
9	Programmable DC Power Supply
10	Arbitrary Function Generator
11	Mixed Domain Oscilloscope
12	6.5 Digital Multimeter
13	Multifunction Calibrator
14	RF Antenna
15	YSI Pro30 Conductivity Meter
16	Plastic Water Sampler
17	Bottom Sampler

Manpower

Job advertisement details

The recruitment for the following positions was completed.
Positions(34):
Principal Scientist(PST)
Project Advisor(PAD)
Research Associate(RA)
Project Officer(PO)
Project Associate(PA)
Senior Project Assistant
Admin staff

S.No	Name	Designation	Email ID
Project Investigators
1	Dr. K.Murali	Professor	murali@iitm.ac.in
2	Dr. S.A.Sannasiraj	Professor	sasraj@iitm.ac.in
3	Dr. V.Sundar	Emeritus - Professor	vsundar@iitm.ac.in
4	Dr. V.Sriram	Associate Professor	vsriram@iitm.ac.in
5	Dr. R.Sundaravadivelu	Professor	rsun@iitm.ac.in
6	Dr. P. Ananthakrishnan	Professor	ananthakrishnan@iitm.ac.in
7	Dr. P.Krishnankutty	Professor	pkrishanankutty@iitm.ac.in
8	Dr. Prabhu Rajagopal	Professor	prajagopal@iitm.ac.in
9	Dr. R Vijayakumar	Professor	vijay2028@iitm.ac.in
10	Dr. Venu Chandra	Professor	vc@iitm.ac.in
Project Scientists
1	Dr. Kumaran Raju	Principal Scientist	raju@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
2	Dr. J.Sriganesh	Principal Scientist	sriganesh@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
3	D.Leo	Principal Scientist	leo@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
Technical Staffs - In Office
1	Muthu Kumar	Senior Project officer	jmuthu86@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
2	Gopi Chand M	Project Officer
3	Sukanya R	Project Officer	sukanya@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
4	J Tamilselvan	Project Officer	tamilselvan@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
5	Sivaranchini S	Project Associate	Sivaranchini@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
6	shyamli	Project Associate	shyamli@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
7	Adhil M Asif	Project Associate	adil@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
8	Nitish Kumar Anand	Project Associate	NitishKumar@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
9	Cheran Pandian S	Project Associate	cheran@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
10	Karthick Ramnaryanan	Senior Research fellow	karthik@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
11	Sivanesan N	Project Associate	Sivanesan@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
12	Sajumon Scaria	Post doctoral researcher	Sajumon@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
13	Saichenthur	Project Officer	Saichenthur@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
14	Nandhini D	Project Associate	Nandhini@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
15	Bhavani Harish M	Project Officer	harish@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
16	Aparna M	Project Officer	Aparna@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
17	Sanjana Malaimagal U	Project Associate	Sanjana@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
18	Parkavi B	Senior Executive	Parkavi@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
19	Srimathy K	Project Associate	srimathy@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
20	Prasanth A	Project Associate	prasanth@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
21	Ranjith	Senior System Admin	ranjith@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
22	Vinoth	Senior Project Assistant	Vinoth@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
23	Rajendra Kumar K P	Project Advisor
24	Srinivasan G	Project Advisor	srinivasan@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
25	Srinivasakannan	Project Advisor	rskannan@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
Technical Staffs - On Site
1	Rajiv Gandhi	Project Officer (CMIS)
2	Maheshwaran V S	Senior Project officer
3	Mahesh Kumar S	Project Associate
4	Arun Rajasekar A	Project Associate
5	Ram Singh Yadav A	Project Officer
6	Abuthahir S	Project Officer
7	Sakthivel P	Project Officer
8	Thiruganam R	Project Officer
9	Prakash V	Project Assosciate
10	Karthikraja R	Project Officer
11	Sedhumathavan M	Project Assosciate
12	Surya Prakash A	Project Assosciate
13	Natraj Prabhu P	Project Assosciate
14	Manikandan A	Project Assosciate
15	Vinoth Kumar K	Project Assosciate
16	Maharaja S	Project Assosciate
17	Mohan Babu	Project Assosciate
18	Shankar Ganesh M	Project Assosciate
19	Sudharshan G	Project Officer
20	Vasanth	Project Associate(CMIS)
21	Arun	Project Assosciate (NIOT)
22	Mahesh Kumar S	Project Associate
23	Arun Rajasekar A	Project Associate
24	Ram Singh Yadav A	Project Officer
25	Abuthahir S	Project Officer
26	Sakthivel P	Project Officer
27	Lakshmanan N	Project Associate
28	Kabaleeswaran P	Project Officer
29	SanthoshKumar P	Project Associate
30	Gowthem B	Project Associate
31	Vijayakumar B	Project Officer
32	Bijay Raj K R	Project Associate
Administrative Staffs
1	Sasikumar	Project Advisor	Sasikumar@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
2	Paul Durai	Senior Executive	pauldurai@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
3	Thamizhvanan R	Office Assistant
4	Pushpavathy A	Senior Executive	pushpavathy@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in
5	Gunasundari	Senior Executive	gunasundari@ntcpwc.iitm.ac.in

Time line of Activities

The time line for the various infrastructural and laboratory facilities detailed below in the Table-1

S.No	Description	Proposed Timeline	Current Status	Expected Completion
1	Development of bridge simulator. The 360 degree Full Bridge Simulator will be established in collaboration with Industrial partner.	Oct 2018	Procurement of Projector for the 360 degree seamless projection completed	Aug 2019
2	Development of field research lab and dedicated computational facility	Oct 2018	Procurement Completed
3	Development of SEMaTeB	Dec 2019	Contract awarded by CPWD.	May 2020
4	Development of office space and dedicated trainees accommodation	Dec 2019	Contract awarded by CPWD.	May 2020

Deliverables

Reports	Content/Description	Delivery timeline
Inception Report	Project initiation report covering statement of work to be done and identification and finalization of facilities and proposed research. The report also will have a detailed time schedule - task wise.	Submitted & 20 August, 2018
Final equipment requirements including specifications.	A detailed list of facilities and equipment to be procured will be prepared along with detailed specifications of each facility/ equipment. This need to be approved by Oversight committee.	Submitted & Approved on 24th July, 2018
First Report	Details/ Status of hiring of suitable manpower, identification of instruments / suppliers, finalized basin, particulars of hydrodynamic facilities, and finalized list of deliverables from each research proposal.	Sept-October 2018
Second Report	Finalization of specifications and tendering for all major infrastructure facilities and initiation of Civil works. Procurement of most of the required field equipments. Required field trials will be carried out and will kept for commissioning for port projects.	February 2019
3rd Report (First Annual Report)	Report on the First review of research proposals and the progress on the utilization of Field equipments for port facilities.	Annually
Final Report	After Commissioning of all major facilities	On completion

Projects

S.No	Project title	More details	Coordinator Name
1.	Development of a customizable 3D numerical Hydrodynamics and siltation tool.	More Info	Dr. K.Murali
2.	Inlet dynamics and Shoal Process- a complete numerical, laboratory and field study.	More Info	Dr.V.Sundar
3.	Development of Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASVs) for Mapping Marine Environment And Water Quality	More Info	Dr. Prabhu Rajagopal
4.	Assessment tool for assessing the impact of ship/ Boat Wake Waves on the banks and protection measures for Inland Waterways	More Info	Dr.V.Sriram
5.	Demonstration of Dragflow Dredger for Silt trap & Shoal Dredging	More Info	Dr.R.Sundaravadivelu
6.	Impact of Navigation on Flow and Sediment Transport at River Confluences: An Experiment Study	More Info	Dr.Venu Chandra
7.	New Concepts of pile Supported Breakwater with Berthing Facility	More Info	Dr.Sannasiraj
8.	Controllability of Ships in Harbour and Navigational Channels.	More Info	Dr.P.Krishnakutty
9.	Technology Development and Demonstration of Micro Bubble Drag Reduction (MBDR) and Manoeuvring of Vessels in inland Water Transportation	More Info	Dr.R.Vijay Kumar
10.	Hydrodynamics study and simulation of Multiple Ship Interactions in inland Waterways and Shallow Waters	More Info	Dr.P.Anantha Krishnan
11.	Comprehensive study of the maintenance dredging requirements of all major ports and national waterways and strategies and technical solutions to reduce the cost in short term and long term.		Prof.K.Murali
12.	Core Project	OEC/18-19/160/MOSH/KMUR	Dr.V.Sundar

New Projects

Sl.No	Name of the Projects	Name of the Agency
1	"Consultant for preparation of DPR for maintenance dredging to handle 14m and 14.5m draft vessels and capital dredging for handling 15.5m draught vessels"	V.O.Chidambaranar Port Trust
2	"Monitoring of Maintenance Dredging at 4th Container Terminal Navigational area of JNPT."	JNPT
3	QRA Study for 4 liquid terminals at Kamarajar Port , Ennore	Hindustan petroleum Corporation Limited
4	"Carrying out Detailed Engineering for Construction of Common User Manifold and Project Management Consultancy for its implementation"	Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust
5	Monitoring of capital and maintenance dredging at MPT.	Mumbai Port Trust
6	"Project Management Consultancy Services (PMC) for the proposed capital dredging LNG jetty and its approaches at KPL"	Kamarajar Port Limited
7	"Comprehensively Study for the maintenance Dredging Requirements at Deendayal Port Trust and to suggest measures to Reduce the cost"	Deendayal Port Trust
8	"Comprehensively Study for the maintenance Dredging Requirements at Deendayal Port Trust and to suggest measures to Reduce the cost"	Deendayal Port Trust
9	Development of ship repair facility (Slipway) at Pandu, Guwahati	Inland Waterways Authority of India
10	"Feasibility of Accepting Vessels with Larger Draft of up To 18m at ICTT Cochin"	India Gateway Terminal Pvt. Ltd
11	"Carrying out study on Haldia Lock System, alternative options for higher throughput into HDC(Phase-IV)-Retro fitting for Berths inside Dock basin at Haldia Dock Complex."	Kolkata Port Trust
12	Borehole investigation for preparation of detailed project report for revised capital dredging	V.O.Chidambaranar Port Trust
13	"Carrying out the study on Maximum depth that can be dredged to handle higher draft vessels at the new coastal berth without modifying / strengthening the existing structures."	Chennai Port Trust
14	"Evaluation of bids and other related works for engagement of PMC (Project Management Consultancy) for construction of New Township under Smart Industrial Port City (SIPC) plan at Paradip."	Paradip Port Trust
15	CFD/Modelling for Pump Caisson System- IOCL Paradip SWIO	Coastal Marine Construction & Engineering Ltd
16	"Carry out the Dredging Plan- Capital and Maintenance Dredging at Kamarajar Pport trust."	Kamarajar Port Trust
17	"Disaster Management -Conducting Hydrodynamic study in Kosasthalaiyar river mouth (Ennore Creek) and connected back water"	Kamrajar port trust
18	"Checking the suitability of yard cranes at Q2/ Q3 berths at Cochin Port Trust (CPT)"	Cochin Port Trust
19	"Techno Commercial Proposal to Carryout LNG Dredging study by IITM at Kamarajar Port."	Kamarajar Port Trust
20	"Conducting Health Check-up Study of south Coal Berth (SCB) for berthing of FACT's Ammonia Vessels."	Cochin Port Trust
21	"Study of Traffic Circulation inside the dock area and dispersion outside the dock area for Kolkata Port."	Kolkata Port Trust
22	"Condition Assessment of concrete in the Reinforced concrete Diaphragm Walls of the Various Berths f M/s. Paradip Port Trust."	Paradip Port Trust
23	"Health Audit for all berths inside Harbour area - Deepening of Iron Ore berth."	Paradip Port Trust
24	"Health Audit of the Structural Units of Iron Ore handling plant in paradip Port"	Paradip Port Trust
25	"Dredging for maintenance of channels and basins at Cochin Port Trust"	Cochin Port Trust
26	"Assessment of Load Carrying Capacity of Berths Q7 to Q9 of Ernakulam Wharf at Cochin Port."	Cochin Port Trust