The Nimoo Bazgo Power Project is a

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power project on the

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situated at Alchi village, from

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in the

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n Union Territory of

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. The project was conceived on 1 July 2001 and approved on 8 June 2005, and construction began on 23rd Sept, 2006. The project involves construction of a concrete dam with five spillway blocks of each having ogee profile. The Nimoo Bazgo power project envisages utilizing a rated net head of to generate in a 90% dependable year. The project has three surface power units of each with a total installed capacity of . Every unit has a diameter, each penstocks. Each operating unit will be designed for a discharge of and also have transformer yard and switch yard. The project will be connected to the northern grid through a 220 kV transmission line from Leh to Srinagar (the line is scheduled for commissioning with project commissioning). The dam diverts water from the river by a long diversion channel and involves a flooding of only . Thus the power density is . The project is being developed by National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Ltd., while Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) has executed the Electro-Mechanical works. All the three units of the project have been successfully commissioned. The project was inaugurated on 12 August 2014 by the Prime Minister of India

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, in a ceremony attended by senior officials including Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir

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, National Security Adviser Ajit Kumar Doval and others.

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