Bhakra Dam

The Bhakra Dam ( English Bhakra Dam ) is a large dam in India. Your shut-off is a 226 m high concrete gravity dam, the highest in India and one of the highest in the world. The dam is located on the Satluj near the border of the northern Indian states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Owned by the Government of Punjab. The 166 km ² Gobindsagar reservoir of the dam was named after Guru Gobind Singh.

The dam is part of the Bhakra Nangal Project, whose goals are flood protection in the valley of the Satluj, irrigation and power generation. Due to the dam 40,000 km ² fields in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh are irrigated. On both sides of the river are two power houses with a total capacity of 1000 MW. Slightly below the dam there is a smaller auxiliary dam named Nangal Dam.