Top 5 Largest Dams In India In 2023 - 2024

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)

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)