biggest dam in india

❇️️ biggest dam in india

 ✅Hirakud Dam, Orissa

🔶 One of the longest dams in the world, Hirakud is in Sambalpur, Odisha.  The length of this dam built on Mahanadi is 26 km.

 🔶Which holds the record for the longest dam in the country and one of the longest dams in the world.

🔶It is one of the largest dam in India

🔶 Irrigation needs have been met in a much better way with this dam built in 1956.

🔸Height: 60.96 m

🔸 Length: 25.8KM

🔸 River: Mahanadi

🔸 Reservoir: Hirakud Lake

🔸Location: Orissa

🔸 Reservoir Capacity: 4,779,965 acre⋅ft

 ✅Sardar Sarovar Dam, Gujarat

 🔶 Sardar Sarovar Dam built on the Narmada river of Gujarat is as famous for its beauty,

🔶Equally, there has been a shadow of controversies on this.

🔶 There was a lot of controversy on this dam regarding the displacement of people and the matter reached the Supreme Court.

🔶 But after the decision of the Supreme Court, the issue of displacement of people was resolved and the construction of the dam was also completed.

🔸The height of this dam is 163       

🔸meters and the length is 1210 meters.

🔸 Height: 163 meters

🔸 Length: 1,210 meters

🔸River: Narmada River

🔸 Location: Gujarat

🔸Reservoir: Sardar Sarovar Lake

🔸Reservoir Capacity: 7,701,775 acre⋅ft

 ✅Nagarjuna Sagar Dam

 🔶Andhra Pradesh Telangana Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, built with modern technology, is famous for its strength as well as its grand structure and beauty.

 🔶This dam built on the Krishna River in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh is an important source of irrigation for Andhra Pradesh.

🔶 The height of Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is 124 meters and the length is 1450 meters.  Which makes it one of the largest dams in India.

🔸Height: 124 meters

🔸 Length: 1,450 meters

🔸 River: Krishna River

🔸 Location: Andhra Pradesh

🔸 Reservoir: Nagarjuna Sagar Lake

🔸 Reservoir Capacity: 9,371,845 acre⋅ft