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Indirasagar Dam, NHDC Limited
The Indira Sagar Dam is the largest dam in India, in terms of volume of water stored in the reservoir. It is located on the Narmada River at the town of Narmada Nagar, Punasa in the Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh in India. The foundation stone of the project was laid by the prime minister of India Indira Gandhi on 23 October 1984. The construction of the main dam started in 1992. The downstream projects of ISP are Omkareshwar, Maheshwar, and Sardar Sarovar Project. To build it, a town of 22,000 people and 100 villages were displaced. The Project involved construction of a 92 m high and 653 m long concrete gravity dam. It provides irrigation to 1,230 square kilometres of land with annual production of 2.7 billion units in the districts of Khandwa and Khargone in Madhya Pradesh, and power generation of 1,000 MW (8x125 MW) installed capacity. In terms of storage of water, it is the largest reservoir in India, with capacity of 12.22 billion cu m or 12.2 km3, fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narmada Nagar
Narmada Nagar () is a township in Punasa Tehsil in East Nimar district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It belongs to Indore division. It is located 49 km north of District headquarters Khandwa. 14 km from Punasa. 179 km from State capital Bhopal. Jamkota (4 km), Pipalkota (5 km), Gulgaon Rayat (6 km), Purni (7 km), and Anjaniya Kala (8 km) are the nearby villages to Narmada Nagar. Narmada Nagar is surrounded by Baladi Tehsil towards the east, Harsud Tehsil towards the east, Khirkiya Tehsil towards the east, and Khandwa Tehsil towards the south. Sanawad, Harda, and Nepanagar are the nearby cities to Narmada Nagar. About Narmada Nagar is a small town, established in around 1985, by Narmada Valley Development Authority and afterwards by Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation. It was earlier known as Asinder, after the king of Punasa, a neighboring town. It has a Panchayat which falls under Mandhata Constituency. Narmada Nagar is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardar Sarovar Project
The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a concrete gravity dam built on the Narmada River near the town of Kevadiya, in Narmada District, in the Indian state of Gujarat. The dam was constructed to provide water and electricity to the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation of the project on 5 April 1961. The project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme funded by the World Bank through their International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity, using a loan of US$200 million. The construction for dam begun in 1987, but the project was stalled by the Supreme Court of India in 1995 in the backdrop of Narmada Bachao Andolan over concerns of displacement of people. In 2000–01 the project was revived but with a lower height of 111 meters under directions from SC, which was later increased in 2006 to 123 meters and 139 meters in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehri Dam
The Tehri Dam is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River in New Tehri, Tehri Garhwal district in Uttarakhand, India. With a height of 260.5 m (855 ft), it is the tallest dam in India and the List of tallest dams, 13th-tallest dam in the world. It is the primary dam of THDC India Ltd. and the Tehri hydroelectricity, hydroelectric complex. The dam begun construction in 1978 and was completed in 2006. It withholds a reservoir for irrigation, municipal water supply and the generation of of hydroelectricity. The dam's 1,000 MW variable-speed pumped storage hydroelectricity, pumped-storage scheme is currently under construction, with the commissioning of the first two units was expected to be completed in 2023, which got finished in March 2024, and the rest to be done by 2025. History A preliminary investigation for the Tehri Dam Project was completed in 1961 under Jawahar lal Nehru's ministry's and its design was completed in 1972 wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagarjuna Sagar
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is a masonry dam across the Krishna River at Nagarjuna Sagar which straddles the border between Nalgonda district in Telangana and Palnadu district in Andhra Pradesh. The dam provides irrigation water to the districts of Krishna district, Krishna, Guntur district, Guntur, Palnadu district, PalnaduPrakasam district, , Prakasam and parts of West Godavari district, West Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh and also Nalgonda district, Nalgonda, Suryapet district, Suryapet, Khammam district, Khammam, Bhadradri Kothagudem district, Bhadradri Kothagudem districts of Telangana. It is also a source of electricity generation for the National Grid (India), national grid. Constructed between 1955 and 1967, the dam created a Reservoir, water reservoir with gross storage capacity of , its effective capacity is 6.92 cubic km or 244.41 Tmcft. The dam is tall from its deepest foundation and long with 26 flood gates which are wide and tall. It is jointly operated by Andhra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Power Stations In India
The total installed power generation capacity in India as on 30 April 2025 is 472468.01 MegaWatt, MW, with sector wise and type wise break up as given below. For the state wise installed power generation capacity, refer to States of India by installed power capacity. Hydroelectric power plants with ≤ 25 MW generation capacity are included in Renewable category (classified as SHP - Small Hydro Project) . The breakdown of renewable energy sources (RES) is: * Solar power - 107,944.61 MW (includes ground mounted solar, rooftop solar, hybrid solar, off-grid solar and PM KUSUM) * Wind power - 51,058.55 MW * Biomass / cogeneration - 10,743.11 MW * Small hydro - 5102.05 MW * Waste-to-energy - 851.91 MW The following lists name many of the utility power stations in India. Conventional Nuclear power As of 30 April 2025, India has 25 operational nuclear reactors with a installed capacity of 8880 MW (1.9 % of total installed capacity) accounting for around 3% of electricity ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drainage Basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the drainage divide, made up of a succession of elevated features, such as ridges and hills. A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical pattern. Other terms for a drainage basin are catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, water basin, and impluvium. In North America, they are commonly called a watershed, though in other English-speaking places, " watershed" is used only in its original sense, that of the drainage divide line. A drainage basin's boundaries are determined by watershed delineation, a common task in environmental engineering and science. In a closed drainage basin, or endorheic basin, rather than flowing to the ocean, water converges toward the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narmada
The Narmada River, previously also known as ''Narbada'' or anglicised as ''Nerbudda'', is the 5th longest river in India and overall the longest west-flowing river in the country. It is also the largest flowing river in the state of Madhya Pradesh. This river flows through the states of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat in India. It is also known as the "Lifeline of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat" due to its huge contribution to the two states in many ways. The Narmada River rises from the Amarkantak, Amarkantak Plateau in Anuppur district in Madhya Pradesh. It forms the traditional boundary between North India, North and South India and flows westwards for before draining through the Gulf of Khambhat into the Arabian Sea, west of Bharuch city of Gujarat. It is one of only two major rivers in peninsular India that runs from east to west (longest west flowing river), along with the Tapti River. It is one of the rivers in India that flows in a rift valley, bordered by the Satpura and Vindhy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation
NHPC Limited (erstwhile National Hydroelectric Power Corporation) is an Indian public sector hydropower company that was incorporated in 1975 to plan, promote and organise an integrated and efficient development of hydroelectric power. Recently it has expanded to include other sources of energy like solar, geothermal, tidal, and wind. At present, NHPC is a Navaratna enterprise of the Government of India and among the top ten companies in the country in terms of investment base. Baira Suil Power station in Salooni tehsil of Chamba district was the first project undertaken by NHPC. Public Limited Company NHPC is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange on 1 September 2009. The government of India and State Governments have 67.40% share as a promoter of the Company while remaining 32.6% is public shareholding. The total number of shareholders are and share capital is ₹12,300,742,773. Market value At present, NHPC is a schedule 'A' Enterprise of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (ISO 15919, ISO: , , AP) is a States and union territories of India, state on the East Coast of India, east coast of southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, seventh-largest state and the List of states and union territories of India by population, tenth-most populous in the country. Telugu language, Telugu is the most widely spoken language in the state, as well as its official language. Amaravati is the state capital, while the largest city is Visakhapatnam. Andhra Pradesh shares borders with Odisha to the northeast, Chhattisgarh to the north, Karnataka to the southwest, Tamil Nadu to the south, Telangana to northwest and the Bay of Bengal to the east. It has the Coastline of Andhra Pradesh, third-longest coastline in India at about . Archaeological evidence indicates that Andhra Pradesh has been continuously inhabited for over 247,000 years, from early archaic Hominini, hominins to Neolithic settlements. The earliest r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telangana
Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, eleventh largest state by area and the List of states and union territories of India by population, twelfth most populated state in India, according to the 2011 Census of India, 2011 census. On 2 June 2014, the area was separated from the northwestern part of United Andhra Pradesh as the newly formed States and union territories of India, state of Telangana, with Hyderabad as its capital. Telugu language, Telugu, one of the classical languages of India, is the most widely spoken and the primary official language of Telangana state, whereas Urdu is recognised as the second official language. Additionally, several tribal languages such as Gondi, Kolami, Koya and Lambadi are spoken in different regions of the Telangana state. The economy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is a masonry dam across the Krishna River at Nagarjuna Sagar which straddles the border between Nalgonda district in Telangana and Palnadu district in Andhra Pradesh. The dam provides irrigation water to the districts of Krishna, Guntur, Palnadu , Prakasam and parts of West Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh and also Nalgonda, Suryapet, Khammam, Bhadradri Kothagudem districts of Telangana. It is also a source of electricity generation for the national grid. Constructed between 1955 and 1967, the dam created a water reservoir with gross storage capacity of , its effective capacity is 6.92 cubic km or 244.41 Tmcft. The dam is tall from its deepest foundation and long with 26 flood gates which are wide and tall. It is jointly operated by Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Nagarjuna Sagar Dam was the earliest in a series of large infrastructure projects termed as "modern temples" initiated for achieving the Green Revolution in India. It is also one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
