India will host an International Conference on dam safety at <br/>Thiruvananthapuram today. <br/><br/>The two-day conference will be jointly inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Water Resources Arjun Ram Meghwal and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. <br/><br/>Ministry of Water Resources said in a statement on Monday that dam professionals, academicians, scientists, as well as industries will deliberate on the problems associated with the dam safety and share concepts and techniques to address the design and construction of new dams along with disaster mitigation measures for the existing dams. <br/><br/>The conference will see the participation of 550 delegates from over 20 countries.<br/><br/>Dam safety conferences are organized as an annual event under the Dam Safety Rehabilitation and Improvement Project being run by the Water Resources Ministry. <br/><br/>Dam safety guidelines and manuals developed under DRIP will also be released for implementation during the conference. <br/><br/>Besides, a software programme – Dam Health and Rehabilitation Monitoring Application – will also be launched during the event. DHARMA is a web tool to digitize all dam related data effectively. <br/><br/>It will help document authentic asset and health information pertaining to the large dams in the country, enabling appropriate actions to ensure need based rehabilitation.