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HIRAKUD DAM |
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Date-wise Events |
- Mar 15, 1946:
Sir Hawthrone Lewis, the Governor of Odisha, laid the foundation
stone of the Hirakud Dam.
- April 12 1948:
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the
first batch of concrete.
- January 13, 1957:
The dam was completed in 1953 and was
formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on
13 January 1957.
- 1966:
Its full potential was achieved in 1966.
- October 29, 1979:
A commemorative stamp on
Hirakud Dam was released on this day by the
Department of Posts, with denomination Rs 0.30.
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December 26, 1960: A hundred rupee note was issued on
this day by RBI, with an image of the Hirakud Dam
and Hydro-Electric station on the back side.
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Description |
- Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi
River, about 15 km from Sambalpur in the state of Odisha in India.
- Behind the dam extends a lake, Hirakud
Reservoir, 55 km long.
- It is one of the first major multipurpose
river valley projects started after India's independence.
- The main purpose of the Hirakud Dam was to
check the massive floods that were affecting a large part of coastal
Odisha.
- But, the construction of the dam greatly
affected the natives of the western part of Odisha. Nearly 150,000
people were affected by the Hirakud project and nearly 22,000
families were displaced.
- The dam regulates the flow of the Mahanadi
River and produces hydroelectricity through several hydroelectric
plants.
- The dam helps control floods in the Mahanadi
delta and irrigates 75,000 square kilometres of land.
- It drains an area of 133,090 km², more
than twice the area of Sri Lanka.
- The amount of earth, concrete and masonry
materials used to build the dam is sufficient to make a road 8
metres wide and pave it from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and from
Amritsar to Dibrugarh in Assam. With successful irrigation provided
by the dam, Sambalpur is called the rice bowl of Odisha.
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