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CE-603 (A) RGPV B.Tech

Water Resource Engineering (WRE)

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Syllabus, notes and important questions for CE-603 (A)

Syllabus units

Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.

Unit 1 Irrigation water requirement and Soil-Water-Crop relationship 13 topics
  • Irrigation definition, necessity, advantages and disadvantages
  • Types and methods of irrigation
  • Irrigation development
  • Soil types, occurrence and suitability for irrigation
  • Wilting coefficient and field capacity of soils
  • Optimum water supply and consumptive use determination
  • Irrigation methods: surface, subsurface, sprinkler and drip
  • Duty of water, factors affecting duty and methods to improve duty
  • Suitability of water for irrigation
  • Crops and crop seasons
  • Principal crops and their water requirements
  • Crop ratio and crop rotation
  • Intensity of irrigation
Unit 1 notes
Unit 2 Ground Water and Well irrigation 12 topics
  • Confined and unconfined aquifers
  • Aquifer properties
  • Hydraulics of wells under steady flow conditions
  • Infiltration galleries
  • Ground water recharge – necessity and methods of improving storage
  • Water logging – causes, effects and prevention
  • Salt efflorescence – causes and effects
  • Reclamation of water‑logged and salt‑affected lands
  • Types of wells
  • Well construction
  • Yield tests, specific capacity and specific yield
  • Advantages and disadvantages of well irrigation
Unit 2 notes
Unit 3 Hydrology 16 topics
  • Hydrological cycle
  • Precipitation and its measurement
  • Recording and non‑recording rain gauges
  • Estimating missing rainfall data
  • Rain gauge networks
  • Mean depth of precipitation over a drainage area
  • Mass rainfall curves
  • Intensity‑duration curves
  • Depth‑area‑duration curves
  • Infiltration and infiltration indices
  • Evaporation stream gauging
  • Run‑off estimation
  • Hydrograph analysis
  • Unit hydrograph derivation from isolated and complex storms
  • S‑curve hydrograph
  • Synthetic unit hydrograph
Unit 3 notes
Unit 4 Canals and Structures 8 topics
  • Types of canals
  • Canal alignment
  • Design of unlined and lined canals
  • Kennedy’s and Lacey’s silt theories
  • Typical canal sections
  • Canal losses and lining objectives
  • Materials used for canal lining and economics
  • Introduction to hydraulic structures: dams, spillways, weirs, barrages, canal regulation structures
Unit 4 notes
Unit 5 Floods 5 topics
  • Types of floods and their estimation by different methods
  • Probability and frequency analysis of floods
  • Flood routing through reservoirs and channels
  • Flood control measures
  • Economics of flood control
Unit 5 notes
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Exam insights

Counted from 6 past CE-603 (A) papers.

Marks asked per paper, by unit

  • Unit 1 Irrigation water requirement and Soil-Water-Crop relationship 26 marks
  • Unit 2 Ground Water and Well irrigation 22 marks
  • Unit 3 Hydrology 28 marks
  • Unit 4 Canals and Structures 24 marks
  • Unit 5 Floods 9 marks

Average marks of the questions from each unit in one paper. You answer only some of them, so the total is more than the paper’s maximum.

Asked again and again

  1. Explain the causes and effects of salt efflorescence and its impact on soil quality and crop productivity.

    Asked 3 times: 2026, 2025, 2024

  2. Compare / discuss Kennedy's theory and Lacey's theory for canal design, including limitations.

    Asked 3 times: 2026, 2025, 2020

  3. Design an irrigation channel using Kennedy's theory to carry a given discharge for given rugosity, critical velocity ratio, slope / section parameters.

    Asked 3 times: 2026, 2024, 2020

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