29/03/2014

Submitted By

Mukul Garg

on behalf of Civil 4th Semester

Civil Engineering Association

Report on Gangrel Dam Visit

Foreword

The entire Gangrel Dam visit was possible due to

courtesy of Civil Engineering Association. The visit served

as a practical learning opportunity for students of Fourth

Semester Civil. A special thanks needs to be placed on

record for Sunny Deol Sir, for his very kind cooperation. A

special thanks to Govardhan Bhat Sir for allowing the trip

and Manikant Verma Sir and Meena Murmu Maam for

accompanying us on the trip. Lastly, thanks for M K

Verma Sir for facilitating the trip. We wish to accomplish

such trips in future.

Trip Timeline

Departure: 10:30 AM (against planned departure of 7 AM, discussed on last page)

Arrival Onsite: 1 PM

Lunch: 1-2 PM

Site Visit: 2-5 PM

Back to College: 7 PM

Total Students who went: 70

58 on Institutes bus

12 on private conveyance

Accompanied by Three teachers

Site Visit

It consisted of the following things:

Dam

Inspection gallery

Turbine

Control Room of Turbine

Practical Knowledge Acquired

Layout of Dam

Magnitude of sizes of foundations and other dam

structures

Reservoirs

Turbine Placement and working

Use of inspection gallery and sub-surface drainage

Electronic turbine and generator control mechanism and

electronic governor

Financial Expenses: On food:

Part I : Food packets from canteen amounting to Rs 4320

( bill attached)

Part II : To serve as a sweets in the packet, chocolates

brought from market in Kota amounting to Rs 450

Problems Faced

The trip was almost on verge on cancelling due to conveyance problems.

The earlier request for two buses (To accommodate 85 people) was not

pondered upon, which resulted in overloading of bus. The students were

still ready to accommodate somehow, but eventually the driver of the bus

ranged up Dean S/W to tell him about the bus state. The Dean straight

away directed to turn away the bus, as no faculty was ready to take on the

responsibility of an overloaded bus. The bus returned to college. Then after

requesting with the authority and floundering our way out of institutes

code of conduct, we finally got a bus. The hardly managed to wheel on for

500 Meters, when it was declared unfit for travelling. Subsequently the trip

was cancelled and both the buses returned to college. It was then, some

students requested to go ahead with the trip. Few students walked out

voluntarily, twelve of the students arranged private conveyance under the

apprehension of being paid by Civil Engineering Association, as it is the

association who is responsible for the mess. Whole of the class agreed to

proposal and we finally made the trip.

More than ninety percent of class found trip enjoyable and the work of

Association members commendable.

The lack of conveyance facility caused vexing, which should be eliminated

in future. Other than that it was an excellent experience for all of us.