Top 5 Largest Dams In India In 2023 - 2024
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1/5 Tehri Dam:
Location: Uttarakhand
River: Bhagirathi
Starting year (construction): 1978
Completion year: 2006
Height: 260.5 m (855 ft)
Length: 575 m (1,886 ft)
Capacity: 3.54 km3 (2,870,000 acre-ft) (125.03 tmc ft)
2/5 Bhakra Nangal Dam:
Location: Himachal Pradesh
River: Satluj
Starting year (construction): 1948
Completion year: 1963
Height: 741 ft (226 m)
Length: 1,700 ft (520 m)
Capacity: 7.551 million megalitres (266.70 tmc ft)
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3/5 Hirakud Dam:
Location: Odisha
River: Mahanadi
Starting year (construction): 1947
Completion year: 1957
Height: 60.96 m (200 ft)
Length: 60.96 m (200 ft)
Capacity:5,896,000,000 m3 (4,779,965 acre⋅ft) (OR) 205.56 tmc ft (effective)
4/5 Nagarjuna Sagar Dam:
Location: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana
River: Krishna
Starting year (construction): 1955
Completion year: 1967
Height: 124 metres (407 ft) from the deepest river bed level
Length: 1,550 metres (5,085 ft)
Capacity: 11.56 km3 (9×106 acre⋅ft)
(405 Tmc ft)
5/5 Sardar Sarovar Dam:
Location: Gujarat
River: Narmada
Starting year (construction): 1987
Completion year: 2017
Height: 138.68 meters
Length: 1,210 m (3,970 ft)
Capacity: 9.460 km3 (7,669,000 acre-ft) (334.12 tmc ft)
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