River Projects In India

KOSI PROJECT

The Kosi River, because of its frequent floods, is called the ‘Sorrow of Bihar’. The Kosi project is an outcome of the joint agreement between the Government of India and Nepal reached in 1954.
Its main objective is to construct a barrage near Hanuman nagar in Nepal, to build embankments (length 270 km) along both the banks of the river to control floods, to lay down canals for irrigation, and to generate cheap hydel power.

GANDAK PROJECT

This is a joint venture of the Governments of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Nepal will also derive some benefit as per 1959 agreement. The project aims at constructing a barrage across the Gandak River at Valmikinagar below the Triveni Canal head regula tor in Bihar, four canals, two each in India and Nepal.

HIRAKUD PROJECT

Hirakud project is a major multi-purpose river valley project in India. Hirakud dam has been constructed over the river Mahanadi. The length of the main section is 4.8 km long. The entire Hirakud dam is 25.8 km long and one of the highest in the world.
The construction of Hirakud Dam began in 1948. The dam was started in 1957. The Hirakud dam irrigates more than 2.5 lakh hectares of land, mainly in Baragarh area.
The water released from Hirakud is utilized in the delta of Mahanadi, by remodelling weirs and Mundali and Birupa Rivers. The dam also support power station and helps to control flood control

BHAKRANANGAL PROJECT

It is the largest and the most important multipurpose project named after the two dams built at Bhakra and Nangal on the Satluj River.
It is a joint venture of the Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan states designed to harness the precious water of the Satluj for the benefit of the concerned states. The Bhakra Dam is one of the highest straight gravity dams in the world.
It has been constructed on the Satluj at the site of Bhakra gorge near Rupnagar (Ropar). The dam is 226metre high and 518metres long with its maximum width at the base as 362 metres.
The dam has created a huge reservoir of water which is 88 km long and 8 km wide with a storage capacity of 986.8 crore cubic metres. This reservoir is named as Gobindsagar Lake after Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth guru of the Sikh community.