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Under India’s DRIP program over 5,000 large dams are to be rehabilitated in accordance with modern dam safety standards. In order to prioritize the rehabilitation works for such a large number of dams, India’s Central Water Commission, needed a risk screening tool to allow for a portfolio risk screening. The tool was developed by simplifying sound principles of risk analysis followed by a comprehensive validation process. The application of the tool is relatively easy and the process of generating risk index for a single dam may take as little as few hours to 1-2 days, depending on the availability of data and personnel familiar with the dam making the tool ideal for helping to prioritize dam safety remedial projects for India’s dam safety program and for other large portfolio’s around the world.