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list, largest, reservoirs, india, this, list, largest, reservoirs, india, including, artificial, lakes, with, capacity, greater, equal, acre, feet, terms, number, dams, india, ranks, third, after, china, however, capita, storage, india, only, cubic, metres, wh. This is a list of largest reservoirs in India including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater or equal to 1 000 000 acre feet 1 2 km3 In terms of number of dams India ranks third after China and USA However per capita storage in India is only 225 cubic metres which is far less compared to China 1 200 cubic metres Currently there are 7 216 completed large dams and 447 are under construction 1 2 In India most of the dams are maintained by the State Governments while there are a few other organizations namely Bhakra Beas Management Board BBMB Damodar Valley Corporation DVC and National Hydro Electric Power Corporation NHPC who also now own and operate dams Map of the major rivers lakes and reservoirs in India Contents 1 List 2 See also 3 External links 4 ReferencesList editThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2021 State UT River Dam Height Length Type Storage capacity Reservoir Area CompleteUttar Pradesh Rihand River Rihand Dam Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar 91 44 m 300 ft 934 45 m 3 066 ft Concrete Gravity 10 6 km3 374 34 TMC 450 km2 1962Kerala Periyar Idukki Dam 168 91 m 554 ft 365 85 m 1200 ft Double curvatureArch 1 996 km3 70 49 TMC 1 618 184 acre ft 649 3 km2 251 sq mi 1973Maharashtra Godavari Jayakwadi Dam Nath Sagar 41 30 m 135 ft 9 998 m 32 802 ft Earth fill amp Gravity 2 909 km3 2 358 365 acre ft 102 73 TMC 217 50 km2 53 745 acres 1976Maharashtra Bhima river Ujjani Dam Yashwant Sagar 54 4 m 178 ft 2 534 m 8 314 ft Earth fill amp Gravity 3 14 km3 2 545 639 acre ft 110 89 TMC 337 km2 83 275 acres 1980Maharashtra Koyna River Koyna Dam Shivasagar 103 2 m 339 ft 807 2 m 2 648 ft Gravity 2 981 km3 2 416 736 acre ft 105 27 TMC 891 78 km2 220 364 acres 1964Madhya Pradesh Narmada Indira Sagar 92 m 302 ft 653 m 2 142 ft Earth fill amp Gravity 12 2 km3 9 890 701 acre ft 430 84 TMC 950km 235k acres 2005Telangana Godavari Sriram Sagar 43 m 141 ft 15 6 km 51 181 ft Earth fill amp Gravity 3 172 km3 2 571 582 acre ft 112 02 TMC 450 82 km2 111 400 acres 1977Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Krishna Nagarjuna Sagar 124 66 m 409 ft 4 865 m 15 961 ft Earth fill amp Gravity 11 561 km3 9 372 655 acre ft 408 27 TMC 284 9 km2 70 400 acres 1960Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Krishna Srisailam Dam Neelam Sanjeevareddy Sagar 145 m 476 ft 512 m 1 680 ft Earth fill amp Gravity 8 722 km3 7 071 040 acre ft 308 01 TMC 616 42 km2 152 321 acres 1984Andhra Pradesh Pennar Somasila 39 m 128 ft 760 m 2 493 ft Earth fill amp Gravity 2 20862 km3 1 790 557 acre ft 78 TMC 212 28 km2 52 456 acres 1989Himachal Pradesh Sutlej Bhakra Dam Gobind Sagar 226 m 741 ft 518 m 1 699 ft Earth fill amp Gravity 9 62 km3 7 799 061 acre ft 339 73 TMC 168 35 km2 41 600 acres 1963Odisha Mahanadi River Hirakud Dam 60 96 m 200 ft 25 8 km 84 646 ft Earth fill amp Gravity 5 896 km3 4 779 965 acre ft 208 22 TMC 83 400 km2 20 608 589 acres 1957Tamil Nadu River Kaveri Mettur Dam 65 m 213 2 ft 1 700 metres 5 600 ft Masonry amp Gravity 2 64 km3 93 23 TMC 2 140 286 acre ft 42 5 km2 10 502 acres 1934Gujarat Narmada River Sardar Sarovar Dam 138 68 m 455 ft 1 210 m 3 970 ft Gravity Dam 9 5 km3 7 701 775 acre ft 335 49 TMC 375 33 km2 2017Gujarat Tapti River Ukai Dam Vallabh Sagar 105 16 m 345 ft 4 927 m 16 165 ft Earth fill amp Gravity 7 41 km3 6 007 385 acre ft 261 68 TMC 612 km2 151 228 acres 1972Uttarakhand Bhagirathi River Tehri Dam 260 5 m 855 ft 575 m 1 886 ft Embankment earth and rock fill 4 km3 3 242 853 acre ft 141 26 TMC 52 km2 12 849 acres 2006See also editList of dams and reservoirs in India List of reservoirs by volumeExternal links editNational Register of Large Dam 2019References edit Statewise dams in India PDF Archived from the original PDF on July 21 2011 Retrieved July 9 2015 National register of dams in India PDF Government of India Archived from the original PDF on September 20 2016 Retrieved July 9 2015 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of largest reservoirs in India amp oldid 1174467394, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
