Gandhi reservoir

Gandhi Sagar Bhadra
View of the Gandhi Sagar Dam
Location: Gandhi Nagar, Mandsaur , Madhya Pradesh Tributaries: Chambal Drain: Chambal, Yamuna
Madhya Pradesh , India
Coordinates	24 ° 42 '24 "  N , 75 ° 33' 12"  E Coordinates: 24 ° 42 '24 "  N , 75 ° 33' 12"  E
Data on the structure
Lock type:	Gravity dam
Construction time:	1954-1960
Height of the barrier structure :	62.17 m
Crown length:	514 m
Power plant output:	142 MW
Operator:	Water Resources Department, Madhya Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh Power Corporation
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination )	400  m
Water surface	723 km²
Reservoir length	68 km
Reservoir width	24 km
Storage space	7322 million m³
Catchment area	22nd 584  km²
Design flood :	21st 238  m³ / s

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

Building

The barrier structure was constructed as a gravity dam made of masonry. It is 62.17 m high and 514 m long. The storage space is 7322 million cubic meters in a catchment area of 22,584 km². The dam was completed in 1960. A 115 MW hydropower plant is operated at the foot of the wall , which has five 23 MW generators, each producing around 564 GWh of energy per year. After the power plant has been used, the water is used for the irrigation of 427,000 hectares of agricultural land through the Kota Dam, which is 104 km downstream of the Gandhi Dam, near the city of Kota in the state of Rajasthan .

There is also another turbine with 27 MW, so that the total output is 142 MW. The hydraulic drop is 44 m.

Construction of the Gandhi Sagar Dam began with the laying of the foundation stone by the then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on March 7, 1954.

The reservoir of the Gandhi Sagar Dam is the second largest in India after the Hirakud Dam in terms of area (with a maximum length of 68 km and a maximum width of 26 km) . It attracts large numbers of domestic and migratory birds all year round. The BirdLife International (IBA) has classified the reservoir with the A4iii criterion because the number of water birds sometimes exceeds 20,000. It is estimated that the creation of the dam resulted in the displacement of 51,000 to 61,000 people from their former homes.

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

Together with the hydropower plant, it cost about 2.3 billion rupees.

Picture gallery

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  Gandhi reservoir at Chambal

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  Gandhi reservoir dam wall

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

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  Gandhi Reservoir

See also

• List of the largest dams on earth
• List of the largest reservoirs on earth
• List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world
• List of dams in the world

Web links

Commons : Gandhi Reservoir  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gandhisagar Dam
• National Register of Large Dams , Central Water Commission, Madhya Pradesh Sr No. 124, PDF file (404)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, Gandhi Sagar: Annexure 3, sr.no. 36: Consultancy for formulating operational cost norms including O&M and escalation for Hydro Power for the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. (PDF, 170 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 9, 2012 ; Retrieved February 8, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} National Informatics Center Mandsur: Gandhisagar Dam. Retrieved February 8, 2012 . 
3. ^ Kota Division National Informatics Center: Command Area Development Chambal, Kota. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 23, 2012 ; Retrieved February 8, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Government of Rajasthan: Chambal Valley Project. Retrieved February 8, 2012 . 
5. ↑ IBA (pdf): Important Bird Areas in India - Madhya Pradesh. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 8, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Terminski, Bogumil (2013). Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement: Theoretical Frameworks and Current Challenges , Geneva.