According to officials this meeting will deliberate on the modalitie for restructuring the mandate with powers to execute the projects/schemes meant for solving the widespread problems of flood/erosion in coordination with the state governments, wherever necessary, in the ganga basis areas. Efforts will also be made by the ministry of water resources to have its regional set-up at Patna strengthened with the cooperation of Bihar government.

The Ganga Flood control commission, a subordinate office of the ministry of water resources was established in April 1972 with its headquarters at Patna. It serves as the executive limb of the Ganga Flood control Board, which is headed by the union minister of water resources and acts as the secretariat of the board. The commission has been mainly assuaged the task of preparing comprehensive plans of flood management of various rivers systems in the Ganga sub-basin and drawing out a phased program of implementation of various schemes from techno-economic angle, monitoring of important flood management schemes, assessment of the adequacy of waterways existing under the road and rail bridges and providing other technical guidance to the basin states.