Indian Big Dams

In this image I tried to point some major Dams/projects of India.There is no accuracy in the above image. Click on titles on the image to know about that project.

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Hailed as The "Temples of Modern India" by Jawharlal Nehru, Dams have a great role to play a great role in Indian economy. Apart from Irrigation they are the producers of Hydro electricity which runs major industries of India. In this Section we try to present some information about the major river projects of India.

At independence, in 1947, there were fewer than 300 large dams in India. By the year 2000 the number had grown to over 4000, more than half of them built between 1971 and 1989. India ranks third in the world in dam building, after US and China. While some of these dams were built primarily for flood control, water supply, and hydroelectric power generation, the primary purpose of most Indian dams (96 percent) remains irrigation. In fact, large dam construction has been the main form of investment in irrigation undertaken by the Indian government. But, starting in the 1980s, public investment in large dams in India has been the subject of a sustained controversy—epitomized by the Sardar Sarovar Project—centering on the balance between the social, environmental, and economic costs of dams and their benefits.

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Below are the List of some of the Major River Projects/Dams. Click for furthur details..

• Hriakud
• Bhakra Nangal
• Nagarjuna Sagar
• Damodar valley Project
• Kota Barrage
• Namrmada Dam
• Rana Pratap Singh
• Salal Project
• Tungabadhra