 A river valley project which gives several

benefits like irrigation to drought-prone

areas, control of floods, generation of
electricity, providing water for domestic
& supporting tree plantation to conserve
ground water & soil is known as a MULTI
PURPOSE RIVER VALLEY PROJECT.
Damodar valley project
 This is the is the first multipurpose river
valley project of independent India.
This project conceived for the unified
development of irrigation, flood control &
power generation in West Bengal &
Jharkhand.
The project is administered by the
Damodar Valley Corporation established
in 1948 .
The irrigation potential of the project is
about 5.51 lakh hectares & its installed
power generation capacity is 1181MW.
It is designed on the lines of Tenesse
Valley Authority in the USA.
Bhakra Nangal project
Its a joint venture of Punjab,
Haryana, Rajasthan.
 Its is India's biggest multi-purpose
river valley project so far
completed at a cost of Rs.236
Crore.
 It consists of a straight gravity
dam, 518 mts long & 226 mts high
across the Sutlej at Bhakhra.
 The Bhakhra dam impounds
986.8 Crore cubic mts of water.
 The canal system of the project is
now irrigating 14.8 lakh hectares.
It generates 1204 MW electricity.
Chambal Valley Project
The Chambal project being jointly
executed by Madhya Pradesh &
Rajasthan.
In the 1st stage, the Gandhi Sagar
dam & its 115 MW power station &
the Kota barrage were completed.
The Rana Pratap Sagar dam with
a power house of 172 MW
capacity was constructed in the
2nd stage.
The 3rd stage comprises the
construction of the Jawahar Sagar
dam & 99 MW power station.
 With the completion of all the
stages, the project will generate
386MW of power.
Tungabhadra project
It is a joint undertaking
by the government of
Arunachal Pradesh &
Karnataka.
It comprises a 2441 mt
long & 49.38 high dam
the river Tungabhadra
near Malipuram.
It irrigates about 10.22
hectares land.
Farakka Barrage project
 It consists of a barrage across the
Ganga at Farakka, another barrage at
Jangipur across the Bhagirathi, a 39 km
long feeder canal taking off from the
right bank of the Ganga, at Farakka &
tailing into the Bhagirathi below the
Jangipur Barrage .
Road - cum - rail bridge over the
Farakka barrage have already been
completed.
The basic Aim of Farakka barrage is to
preserve & mountain Calcutta port & to
improve the navigatability of the Hooghly
river.
 Farakka is to use 40,000 cusecs of
Water out of water stored in the dam to
flush the Calcutta port which is get silted
up.
Hirakud Dam.
 The 4801.2 mts long main
Hirakud dam in Orissa is on
the river Mahanadi.
 Its world's longest dam.
 The project migrates
irrigation an area of 11.98
lakh hectares.
 Its present installed power
generation capacity is 27.2
MW.
For example:
(i) Tennessee River Valley
Project in U.S.A.
(ii) Wilson dam in Alabama.
Tennessee river valley project
 It was created due to the
efforts of Senator George W.
Norris of Nebraska in the year
1933 to provide navigation,
flood control, electricity
generation, fertilizer
manufacturing, and
economic development in
the Tennessee Valley, a
region particularly affected
by the Great Depression.
 Tennessee river valley's
service area covers most of
Tennessee, parts of
Alabama, Mississippi, and
Kentucky, and small slices of
Georgia, North Carolina, and
Virginia.
Wilson Dam
 It is a dam spanning the Tennessee
River between Lauderdale County
and Colbert County in the U.S. state
of Alabama. It impounds Wilson Lake.
 The dam was declared a National
Historic Landmark on November 13th,
1966.
 Construction on Wilson Dam began
in 1918 and was completed in 1924
under supervision of Hugh L. Cooper.
The dam is 137 feet (42 m) high and
stretches 4,541 feet (1,384 m) across
the Tennessee River. The cost to build
the dam was almost $ 4 7 million .
 The generating capacity of Wilson
dam is 6 7 5 megawatts of electricity.
 The dam is named for former
President of the United States
Woodrow Wilson.
From this presentation, we therefore
conclude that there are q uite a
number of river valley projects in India
itself which are used for fishing, boating,
irrigation, etc. and are the utilizers of the
li q uid life giving resource which
produces hydroelectricity and helps the
whole country.
B y,
Sristi Chakroborty (WHO
SUCKS BALLS)
Subhronil Mondal
Sukanya Banerjee
Swarajit Nath (WHO IS A
FUCKING WOMANIZER)
Swarnendu Dawn
Swastik Chakroborty
Ushashi Roy Choudhury