Gandhi Sagar Dam

The Gandhi Sagar Dam ( Gandhi Sagar, Gandhi Reservoir ') is one of four dams on the Indian River Chambal. The dam is in Mandsaur district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Building

It is a gravity dam made ​​of masonry, 62.17 m high and 514 m long, with an internal volume of 7.322 billion cubic meters, with a catchment area of 22,584 km ². The dam was completed in 1960. It is operated at the wall base, which has five 23- MW generators that produce each year about 564 GWh of energy a 115 - MW hydroelectric power plant. The water is used by the power plant use for irrigation of 427,000 ha, through the Kota lock, the downstream 104 km of Gandhi Dam stands near the city Kota in Rajasthan.

There is also a further turbine with 27 MW, so that the total power is 142 MW. The hydraulic height is 44 m.

The construction of the Gandhi Sagar Dam began with the foundation stone was laid by the then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 7 March 1954.

The reservoir of Gandhi Sagar dam is by the surface (with a maximum length of 68 km and a maximum width of 26 km) is the second largest in India after the Hirakud Dam. He draws all year round through a large number of domestic and migratory birds. The BirdLife International ( IBA) has classified the reservoir with the A4iii criterion, because the number of water birds sometimes 20,000 überschreitet.Es is estimated that the creation of the dam to the displacement of people from their former places of residence 51-61000 led.

The Gandhi Sagar Dam is located in a ravine of Chambal at a distance of 168 km from the district capital Mandsaur.

She has tasted the water power plant together about 2.3 billion rupees.

Gallery

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The power plant on the right bank and the bridge over the Chambal river below the dam

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