BIRLA VISHVAKARMA

MAHAVIDYALAYA

NAME:-MAVANI TUHIN HARESHBHAI

ID NO.:-16CE118
BATCH:-B2
TOPIC:-BHAKRA NANGAL PROJECT
 BHAKRA-NANGAL PROJECT
 Bhakra-nangal project is largest and
important multipurpose project in India.
 It is built upon Sutlej river and for this
project to exist three major states have
came together :
Panjab,Haryana,Rajasthan.
 States have contributed to this project to
harness the water of Sutlej river and
redeem the benefits of the project.
The project comprises of following:
o Two dams at Bhakra and Nangal
o Nangal Hydel Channel
o Power houses with a combined installed
capacity of 1,204 megawatt(M.W.)
o Electric transmission lines
o Bhakra canal system for irrigation
 LOCATION
 There was a gorge-a narrow valley having steep
and a stream flowing through it , near Bhakra
village , in Bilaspur District of Himachal
Pradesh.
 The Gorge is between two major hills in the
locality Naina Devi ki dhar and Ramgarh ki dhar
through which river was flowing.
 Thus the Bhakra Dam site was finalized.

 The village got submerged in the storage water of

Dam.
 FEATURES OF THE DAM
 The Bhakra dam is built on Sutlej River .It is
Asia’s second tallest dam with a height of around
207.26 meters after the Tehri dam ,which has a
height of around 261 meters.
 The Tehri dam is also situated in India in the
state of Uttrakhand.
 The Gobind Sagar reservoir of the dam has a
capacity to store water up to 9.34 billion cubic
meters, which is enough amount of water to flood
the whole of Chandigarh ,parts of Haryana
,Panjab and Delhi.
 The Govind Sagar is an 88 km long and 8 km wide
reservoir.
 The reservoir is named after the tenth guru of
Sikh community ,Guru Gobind Singh.
 The dam is the second largest reservoir in India
after the Indira Sagar Dam in Madhya Pradesh in
terms of water storage.
 USES OF BHAKRA DAM
 IRRIGATION: The primary use of the dam is
irrigation ,storing rainwater. The dam provides
irrigation water to Haryana ,Rajasthan ,Gujarat
and Himachal Pradesh.

 ELECTRICITY: The water of Bhakra dam is

also used to provide electricity for states of
Haryana ,Rajasthan ,Gujarat and Himachal
Pradesh.
 It has ten hydroelectric power generators on each
side.