It is prestigious to be a part of HYDRO 2023 INTERNATIONAL, 28th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and River Engineering organized by Civil Engineering Department of the National Institute of Technology Warangal, under the aegis of the Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) shall hold from December 21 to 23, 2023 at Warangal, India. The conference aims at providing a forum for dissemination of recent contributions from academicians, scientists, researchers, practitioners and consultants in the fields of hydraulics, hydrology and water resources.

4th year UG students from the department of Civil Engineering VJIT published 4 papers in this conference. We appreciate all students Kandakatla, Rahul; A, Jayasree Madda, Sravan Reddy Harshitha, Sanghishetty poludasari, Sharanya, Pragathi Chilkamarri, Gouthami, Korra; Mahendar, Guguloth, Pallavi T, Pasha Md, Sathwika S, Sravan K for becoming a part of this prestigious conference as a authors.

It is great to acknowledge the guidance from Dr. Kamalini Devi, Dr. Jnana Ranjan Asst professor CED, CBIT, Dr. Bhabani Shankar Das Asst Professor, CED NIT Patna and Dr. Pallavi Badry, Professor and Head of civil Engineering Dept VJIT for being support for this research task.

The following are the titles of papers presented in above Conference

1. Modelling of Rainfall Using Regression Analysis and Soft Computing Techniques (Kandakatla, Rahul*; A, Jayasree; Madda, Sravan Reddy; Khuntia, Jnana Ranjan; Devi, Kamalini; Das, Bhabani Shankar)

2. Study of Drought Severity and Agricultural Water Demand Near Godavari Basin (yadav, puli vikesh*; Harshitha, Sanghishetty; poludasari, Sharanya; Devi, Kamalini; Khuntia, Jnana Ranjan; Das, Bhabani Shankar)

3. Modeling of Scour Depth using Multivariable Regression Analysis (Pragathi, Chilkamarri *; Gouthami, Korra; Mahendar, Guguloth; Devi, Kamalini; Khuntia, Jnana Ranjan; Badry, Dr. Pallavi)

4. A Review of Various Scouring Phenomenons in Open Channel  (Pallavi, T1, Pasha, Md, Sathwika, S4, Sravan, K4, Devi, K5, Pallavi, Badry