The swollen narmada river inundated several villages in narmada vadodara and bharuch districts while the authorities said the water leven in the dam which stood at 132 9 at 5pm on monday just six metres away from its full reservoir level frl capacity of 138 68 metres may rise further. Narmada rises from amarkantak plateau in anuppur district madhya pradesh.
Sardar sarovar dam is a 163 meters high gravity dam across the narmada river with the installed capacity of 1 450 mw.
Narmada river all dams list. Over 9 000 people were shifted to safer places in gujarat s bharuch narmada and vadodara districts with the narmada river swelling due to heavy inflow from upstream dams officials said on tuesday. List of major dams in narmada river valley. It forms the traditional boundary between north india and south india and flows westwards.
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The outflow of water through gates is 565000cusecs rbph is 33938cusec and chph is 15675 cusecs. Why do people oppose the construction of tehri dam on the river ganga and sardar sarover project on the river narmada. The narmada river flows for more than 1 300 km 808 miles and crosses three different indian states madhya pradesh maharashtra.
An overview on dams construction along the narmada river in india and the 30 year long struggle of the narmada bachao andolan narmada for life in the river valley and for livelihood of local communities. Taking issue with both the views the top state insider said that ssd as also all dams on the narmada river upstream in madhya pradesh are operated under the narmada water disputes tribunal nwdt award of 1979 and ssd operators or for that matter ssnnl in fact all other operators of the projects that have come up on narmada are mere. The narmada river also called the reva and previously also known as narbada nerbudda it is also known as life line of madhya pradesh and gujarat for its huge contribution to the state of madhya pradesh and gujarat in many ways.
The dam has an inflow of 5 02 322 cusecs. Asked oct 14 2019 in physics by suchita 66 2k points sources of energy. The sardar sarovar dam is the part of the narmada valley project and one of the five biggest dam of india located near songadh in gujarat.
Several villages along the narmada river have been put on alert in the districts of narmada bharuch and vadodara saturday.
