I want a ppt on Dams and reservoir ( Bhakra nangal Dam specific)
All details on its construction ,feature , advantage cost, maintainence etc
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The Canal Nangal Hydel is 64.4 km long, 42.65 m wide and 6.28 m deep. It has been cemented over its entire length to avoid seepage. It is one of the longest cemented channels in the world. It peels off the left bank of the river and flows through the wrinkled topography of steep slope. There is a drop of 70 meters in altitude within a distance of 64 km. Its main function is to convert the power house turbines located below the Nangal dam, but also supplies water to the Bhakra irrigation canals. Energy houses have been built to generate hydroelectric power from the water of the Satluj River. A power house has been built in Ganguwal about 19 kilometers downstream from Nangal. Another house of power has been built at a distance of 29 km from the dam of Nangal. This is known as Kotla's power house. The Ganguwal and Kotla power plants have 2 units of 24 MW each and a 29 MW unit. The third house of power is in Rupnagar. Two power houses have been built at the Bhakra Dam, one of which is on the left and the other on the right bank of the river. The installed capacity of these two plants is 450 MW and 600 MW respectively.
The main channel of Bhakra is 174 km long. The length of the channel system and that of the distributors is 1,104 km and 3,360 km respectively. This canal system commands a coarse area of about 27 hectares of lakh and provides irrigation to about 15 lakh hectares. Of this 37.7 percent is in Punjab, 46.7 percent in Haryana and the remaining 15.6 percent in Rajasthan. Transmission lines have been established to bring hydroelectricity to consumption centers. A total of 3,680 km long transmission lines are used to supply power to Rupnagar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Rajpura, Nabha, Moga, Ferozepur, Fazilka, Faridkot, Muktsar, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Pathankot in Punjab; Ambala, Panipat, Hisar, Bhiwani, Rewari, Rohtak, Panchkula, Kalka, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Palwal in Haryana; Delhi; Kasauli, Kangra and Shimla in Himachal Pradesh and Rajgarh and Rattangarh in Rajasthan. "Bhakra Nangal Project is something tremendous, something great, something that shakes you from seeing it. Bhakra today is the symbol of India's progress." -Nehru
Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam of the Satluj River in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh in northern India. The dam, located in a gorge near the (now submerged) village upstream of Bhakra in the Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh of height 226 m. The length of the dam (measured from the road above it) is 518.25 m and the width is 9.1 m. Its reservoir known as "Gobind Sagar" stores up to 9.340 million cubic meters of water. The 90 km long reservoir created by the Bhakra dam extends over an area of 168.35 km2. In terms of water quantity, it is the third largest reservoir in India, the first in Madhya Pradesh with a capacity of 12.22 million cubic meters and the second dam of Nagarjunasagar.
Described as "New Temple of Resurgent India" by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, the dam attracts tourists from all over India. The Bhakra Dam is 15 km from the town of Nangal and 20 km from the town of Naina Devi. The Nangal Dam is another dam downstream of the Bhakra Dam. However, sometimes both dams are called Bhakra-Nangal dam although they are two separate dams.