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To provide sufficient water supply for running the steel plant, the Mandira Dam Water Reservoir was constructed from 1957 to 1959 on the river Shankha, near Kansbahal. [ 18 ] [ 5 ] The first notifications for vacation of land for the dam site were issued in 1957. [ 10 ]
Mandira Dam. Mandira Dam is located near Kansbahal in Sundergarh district, Odisha, India. It is built across Sankh river, near Kansbahal, located 16 km upstream from Mandira. The water from the dam is used for running the Rourkela Steel Plant. [1] [2] Construction of the dam began after 1957. The dam displaced 2400 families and only 843 were ...
The preliminary survey for the steel plant at Rourkela was started in 1952 and the Government of Odisha issued a gazette notification on 16 February 1954. In accordance with the notification, the Government of Odisha acquired an area of about 80 square miles around Rourkela for the purpose of Steel Plant.
Kalunga is an Industrial Estate, which is situated at outskirts from the steel city Rourkela in Sundargarh district in Odisha state. It can be reached by both Road & Rail. Situated in the State Highway (SH-10), Rourkela to Sambalpur road.
The Odisha Construction Corporation or OCC is a premier Government of Odisha undertaking. Established in the year 1962 under the then Indian National Congress government of Biju Patnaik(fourth Chief Minister of Odisha) to undertake specialised civil and mechanical construction works hence creating an infrastructure base in the state of Odisha.
The hydropower plant is planned to have an installed capacity of 2,115 megawatts. [38] If completed on time in 2022, this would be Africa's 2 largest dam by installed capacity, after Ethiopia GERD Dam 5100 megawatts, over Egypt's Aswan High Dam (2100 megawatts), Mozambique's Cahora Bassa Dam (2075 megawatts), and Angola's Lauca Dam (2070 ...
The Aruvikkara Dam was built to provide a supply of piped water to the city. The Trivandrum Water Works was founded in 1933 and named after Lord Willingdon, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India; the company has been responsible for supply and distribution of water from the Karamana River ever since. [9]
Poulaphouca Reservoir, officially Pollaphuca (from Irish Poll a' Phúca, meaning 'the Púca's hole'), [1] [2] is an active reservoir (for both water supply and electricity generation) and area of wild bird conservation in west County Wicklow, Ireland named after the Poulaphouca waterfall on its south-western end where the water exits the lake.