{"id":705,"date":"2016-04-02T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T18:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2020-10-04T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T14:52:43","slug":"bhakra-nangal-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/bhakra-nangal-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhakra Nangal Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bhakra Nangal Project is a joint venture of the governments of Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The project had some primary objectives such as the construction of two dams at Bhakra and Nangal; creating the Nangal hydel project; establishing four power houses at Ganguwal and Kotla and construction of transmission lines to distribute electricity to nearby states.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Bhakra Nangal project is the biggest multipurpose project in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Bhakra Dam was built in 1963 across the River Sutlej.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The dam is considered as the highest gravity dam in the world and is India\u2019s second tallest dam, the first being the Tehri Dam.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The reservoir of the Bhakra Dam, known as Gobind Sagar, has the capacity to store 9.34 billion cubic metres of water.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This reservoir is the second largest in India, the first being the Indira Sagar Dam in Madhya Pradesh.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Nangal dam too stands on the River Satluj, but at a distance of 13 km from the Bhakra Dam.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The dam acts as a balancing reservoir and counter-checks the daily fluctuations from the Bhakra Dam.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Nangal Hydel hydel channel provides water to the Bhakra irrigation canal and uses turbines to generate electricity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The four powerhouses proposed under the Bhakra Nangal project are situated in Ganguwal, Kotla and the left and right banks of the river. The combined capacity of the hydel power generated by the Bhakra Nangal project is 1205 MW.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Transmission lines measuring a total of 3,680 km have been laid down and they distribute power to several cities situated near the Bhakra Nangal project. The power from the hydel project is also used to run tube wells in Punjab and Haryana and operating trains between Delhi and Ludhiana.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Under the project, an efficient canal system has also been established to provide water for irrigation purposes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Bhakra Main Canal has two branches which break down into smaller tributaries and distributaries and provide water to districts in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The project was conceived much before Independence and the preliminary work had already begun in 1946.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The construction of the dam was supervised by the Lieutenant Governor Sir Louis Dane.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the project got delayed and had to be restarted post Independence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, had poured the first bucket of concrete into the foundation of the dam.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The project was completed in subsequent phases and became operational in 1963.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> However, of late the dam is facing problems of siltation due to deforestation in the Himalayas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This siltation has reduced the capacity of the dam\u2019s reservoir.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bhakra Nangal Dam is also an important tourist destination. The beautiful landscape and the fact that the dam is the second highest in India attracts hordes of tourists every year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The former Prime Minister of India, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, had called it the New Temple of Resurgent India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bhakra Nangal Project is a joint venture of the governments of Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab. The project had some primary objectives such as the construction of two dams at Bhakra and Nangal; creating the Nangal hydel project; establishing four power houses at Ganguwal and Kotla and construction of transmission lines to distribute electricity to &#8230; <a title=\"Bhakra Nangal Project\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/bhakra-nangal-project\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bhakra Nangal Project\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-know-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}