Kanva Dam: History, Location, River, Length, State
Visitors driving to Channapatna for its famous lacquered wooden toys rarely realise that just outside town sits a nearly 80-year-old irrigation reservoir that has quietly shaped the region’s agricultural economy for generations. Kanva Dam…
Kanjirapuzha Dam Mannarkkad: History, Location, River, Length, State
Most irrigation reservoirs are simply large bodies of stored water — Kanjirapuzha Dam’s reservoir is something more unusual: a working landscape with three islands rising from the water and a genuine commercial fishing operation run by…
Kallanai Dam Tiruchirappalli: History, Location, River, Length, State
Nearly 1,900 years before India had an independent government, a Chola king ordered a stone barrier built across the Kaveri River using the labour of prisoners captured in his Ceylon campaigns. That structure, Kallanai — better known as the Grand Anicut…
Kaliyasot Dam Bhopal: History, Location, River, Length, State
Kaliyasot Dam’s name traces back nearly a thousand years, to a minister in the court of Raja Bhoj — the 11th-century ruler credited with founding Bhopal’s famous lake system in the first place. Today, this same reservoir sits in the catchment…
Kakkayam Dam Kozhikode: History, Location, River, Length, State
Water released from Kakkayam Dam doesn’t simply flow downstream and disappear — it powers a 225 MW hydroelectric station, then gets diverted through two more small power plants, and only after all that generates yet another dam’s worth of…
Jurala Dam Jogulamba Gadwal: History, Location, River, Length, State
When the foundation stone for this project was laid, it was named “Priyadarshini” — the epithet by which Indira Gandhi was widely known — making it one of the more personally significant infrastructure projects tied to her legacy in the…
Jayakwadi Dam Paithan: History, Location, River, Length, State
Jayakwadi Dam wasn’t originally supposed to be built where it stands today. The project was first planned for an entirely different location, but after Maharashtra’s formation as a separate state, engineers relocated the entire scheme roughly…
Tehri Dam, Uttarakhand: History, Location, River, Length, State
Every year on 31 July, a group of people gather in Dehradun to relive memories of a town that no longer exists. Old Tehri, once the cultural and political heart of Garhwal, disappeared beneath the waters of India’s tallest dam in 2004, its last…
Srisailam Dam, Kurnool: History, Location, River, Length, State
Few dams anywhere in India sit this close to genuine religious and ecological significance simultaneously. Srisailam Dam rises barely 1.6 km downstream from a temple that holds the rare distinction of being both a Jyotirlinga and a Shakti Peetha — two of…
Siswan Dam, SAS Nagar (Mohali): History, Location, River, Length, State
Just 16 km from Chandigarh sits a small dam that doubles as a protected community reserve, where wildlife comes to drink from the same reservoir that irrigates nearby farmland — and where visitors can end their trip with bush dining at a restaurant built…
