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Sanjaya Bhagwat, who is chief engineer of the Mahanadi Project at Raipur in Chhattisgarh said the discussion was held on the dam safety of the Mahanadi basin. "The data related to rainfall and release of flood water from the dams in Chhattisgarh will be shared much before water is discharged. "Last year, the meeting was held at Raipur in Chhattisgarh. Both Odisha and Chhattisgarh will share information with each other," Bhagwat said.Among others, the state planning and design engineer-in-chief Gunadhar Mishra, chief engineer of Odisha dam safety Prafulla Swain, superintending engineer of Ravishankar Dam Project in Chhattisgarh, Kisan Singh Dhruv and superintending engineer of Bango Dam Project in Chhattisgarh, Lila Sankar Chandrakar attended the meeting. "This apart, it is also essential for us to know the information on inflow and outflow of water from the dams for proper management of water in Odisha," he added.Information regarding dam and water management of Odisha is shared with our counterparts in Chhattisgarh, he said..