Dulhasti Hydroelectric Project
Hydroelectric
Power Projects Salal Hydroelectric Power Station Chenab river
Baglihar Hydroelectric Project
Jammu & Kashmir
Purpose: Flood control, hydropower
Multipurpose Project Kishan Ganga
generation, irrigation, tourism
India’s first river valley project (1948) Tulbul Jhelum river
based on the Tennessee River of USA Uri
Varahi Pong Dam (Maharana Pratap Sagar) Beas river
8 dams built on Damodar & its tributaries
Kunchikal Himachal Pradesh
Highest waterfall in India Chamera Dam Ravi river
Damodar Valley Project Maithon - Jharkhand - Borakar River
Karnataka Sharavati
Tilaiyah - Jharkhand - Borakar River Matatila Dam
Jog/Gersoppa/Mahtma Gandhi
Betwa river
2nd highest waterfall in India
Panchet - Jharkhand - Damodar Uttar Pradesh Lakshmibai Dam
Kaveri Shivsamundram
Konar - Jharkhand - Konar Rihand Dam
Rihand river
(Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar Reservoir)
Rajasthan Chambal Chulia
Constructed during 1st Five Year Plan
Dhuandhar Waterfalls Built on Sutlej river
Ukai Dam
Tapi river
Madhya Pradesh Narmada
Kapildhara Gujarat Kakrapar Dam
Bhakra - Himachal Pradesh
(Govind Sagar Lake from
Jharkhand Swarnrekha Hundru Sardar Sarovar Dam Narmada river
Bhakra Nangal Project Made of two dams Bhakra Nangal Dam)
Goa Mandvi Dudh Sagar Nangal - Punjab Tawa river
Tawa Dam
(tributary of Narmada)
Venezuela Angel waterfall Highest waterfall in the world Highest Gravity Dam - bears forces on its own
Ban Sagar Dam Son river
USA-Canada border Niagara Falls 2nd highest in the world Largest Dam of India in terms of area
Madhya Pradesh Omkareshwar Dam
Nathpa Jhakri Dam is also built on Sutlej in Narmada river
Chhattisgarh Chitrakote waterfall Niagara of India
Himachal Pradesh Indira Sagar Dam
Gandhi Sagar Dam Chambal river
State-wise Mahi Bajaj Sagar Dam Mahi river
Bilaspur Dam Banas river
Rajasthan
Maharashtra Dam & waterfall Rana Pratap Sagar Dam
Chambal river
Tarapur Atomic Power Station
Built on Rihand river (Tributary of Son) Jawahar Sagar Dam
1st Nuclear Power Station
Rajasthan (Rwatbhata) Rajasthan Atomic Power Station Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar Lake created from Jayakwadi Dam Godavari river
Rihand Dam
this dam
Tamil Nadu Maharashtra Chhom Dam Krishna river
Largest Artificial Lake of India
(Kalpakkam) Madras Atomic Power Station
1st indigenously built Koyna Dam
Nuclear Power Plants In Odisha, Sambalpur district (largest dam of Maharashtra)
Koyna river
Uttar Pradesh Narora Atomic Power Station
Hirakud Dam Built on Mahanadi river Chhattisgarh Indravati Dam Godavari river
Gujarat Kakrapar Atomic Power Station
Longest dam of world/India (4.8 km/25 km)
Jog/Mahatma Gandhi Dam
Karnataka Kaiga Nuclear Power Station Sharavati river
In Uttarakhand
Linganamakki Dam
Tamil Nadu Kudhankulam Nuclear Power Station Karnataka
Dams Tehri Dam Built on Bhagirathi river
Shivsamudram Dam
Kaveri river
Highest Dam of India (261 m)
Almatti Dam
n West Bengal, built on Ganga river
Kerala Periyar/Mullaperiyar/Idukki Dam Periyar river
Farakka Dam
This dam was built to provide water to the
Hooghly river Pochampad/Sriram Sagar/Kaleshwaram
Telangana Godavari river
Lift Irrigation Project
Harike Dam was built through this project in
Punjab (Kapurthala) Paykara Dam Paykara river
Tamil Nadu
Vyas River Project Sutlej and Vyas meets here Mettur Dam Kaveri river
An Indira Gandhi Canal was constructed from it Srisailam Dam
Andhra Pradesh Krishna river
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
