Sardar Sarovar Dam


The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a gravity dam built on Narmada River near Navagam, Gujarat. It is going to benefit four Indian states namely Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. A part of the Narmada Valley Project, it will help in irrigation and electrical power supply. It is a part of a large hydraulic engineering project involving the construction of a series of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi-purpose dams on the Narmada River.
 
SARDAR SAROVAR DAM
  • One of the 30 dams planned on river Narmada, Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSD) is the largest structure to be built. The project will be irrigating more than 190,000 sq ft, most of it in drought prone areas of Kutch and Saurashtra. The total installed capacity of the power facilities is 1,450 MW.
  • The Statue of Unity stands facing the Sardar Sarovar Dam, 3.2 km away on the river island called Sadhu Bet. The monument stands near the Sardar Sarovar Dam, which has also been named after the Iron Man of India. At 182-metre, the statue has become the world’s tallest - it is 177 feet higher than China’s Spring Temple Buddha.
  • The statue has been designed by Padma Bhushan-winning sculptor Ram V Sutar and has been built by Larsen and Toubro and the state-run Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd.
  • Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbour in New York City, in the United States.UPSC Prelims 2024 dynamic test series
  • The Sardar Sarovar Dam is the second largest in the world in terms of volume and size. It comes second to the Grand Coulee Dam in the United States, which is considered the largest going by its volume. The 1.2-km-long, 138.68metre high and 163 metre deep dam, with a storage capacity to 4.73 million acre feet of water will irrigate the land and the water from Narmada will flow into over 9,000 villages through a canal network.

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