Baglihar Dam

The Baglihar Dam is a dam with a large hydroelectric power plant on the river Chanab in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The hydroelectric power plant produces in the initial version with three turbines of 150 megawatts ( MW ) have a total capacity of 450 MW. Later, again another 450 MW planned. The shut-off is a gravity dam made ​​of concrete.

The dam is Batote in the Himalayas and 150 km from Jammu in Doda district. The project was planned by Lahmeyer International on behalf of the Jammu & Kashmir State Power Development Corporation ( JKPDC ) in Srinagar. During construction of the Baglihar Dam, there were two landslides, through which the diversion tunnel was spilled for bauzeit union water drainage. Therefore, the water rose up to the half-finished dam and flooded the site, so that could not be worked on. You had to make from the air side of a new tunnel through the dam to drain the water. Only after the building was completed.

Because of its proximity to Pakistan agreements were necessary with the neighboring country during construction.

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