The guidelines on ‘Integrated Water Resources Development and Management’ were prepared in BPMO, CWC under strategy V.4 of National Water Mission in March 2010 and were circulated within CWC for comments. The suggestions received from various organisations / directorates of CWC during the meeting on 10.3.2010 were incorporated and the guidelines were submitted to Commissioner (PP), MoWR on 31st March 2010 for concurrence, so that the interaction with various States on the guidelines might be held. The guidelines were, then, circulated to all States and Union Territories for their views and observations. Some States and organizations submitted their views and the same were suitably incorporated in the guidelines. Thereafter, the draft guidelines were discussed and deliberated upon with various stakeholders including State Govt during a workshop on IWRM organized by World Bank in New Delhi in Feb, 2015 along with various international experts.