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There are 81 dams in Kerala. [ 1 ] Of the 81 dams, the Kerala State Electricity Board owns 59 dams which form 45 reservoirs, the Kerala Irrigation Department owns 20 dams which form 20 reservoirs and the Kerala Water Authority vests the control of 2 dams with 2 reservoirs. Three dams - Munnar Headworks Dam, Lower Periyar Dam, and Maniyar Dam ...
Mullaperiyar. Kumily. Mullaperiyar Dam (IPA: [mulːɐpːeɾijɐːr]) is a masonry gravity dam on the Periyar River of Idukki district of Indian state of Kerala. It is situated 150km south east of Kochi and 200km north east of state capital city of Trivandrum. [ 2 ][ 3 ] It is located 881 m (2,890 ft) above the sea level, on the Cardamom Hills ...
Kochi, Ernakulam. The Government of Kerala (abbreviated as GoK), also known as the Kerala Government, is the administrative body responsible for governing Indian state of Kerala. The government is led by a chief minister, who selects all the other ministers. The chief minister and their most senior ministers belong to the supreme decision ...
Water Resources Department; Women and Child Development Department; Western Ghats Cell; ... Electrical Inspectorate, Kerala; Ground Water Department, Kerala;
97.54 m (320.0 ft) The Kanjirapuzha Dam, a masonry earth dam built for providing irrigation to a Cultural Command Area (CCA) of 9,713 hectares (24,000 acres), is located in the Palakkad district in the Indian state of Kerala. [ 1 ] The reservoir, which has three islands within it, also has an established commercial fisheries development ...
Installed capacity. 54 MW. Annual generation. 233 MU. Sholayar Power House. Sholayar Dam is a concrete dam built across the Chalakkudi River in Malakkappara in Thrissur district, Kerala of India. [1][2] The dam consists of main Sholayar Dam, Sholayar Flanking and Sholayar Saddle Dam. It also contains Sholayar Hydro Electric Power Project of ...
Periyar, (Malayalam: [peɾijaːr], meaning: big river) is the longest river and the river with the largest discharge potential in the Indian state of Kerala. [ 3 ] It is one of the few perennial rivers in the region and provides drinking water for several major towns. [ 4 ] The Periyar is of utmost significance to the economy of Kerala.
76 km (47 mi) Average speed. 8 knots (15 km/h) Top speed. 10 knots (19 km/h) Kochi Water Metro (KWM) is a ferry transport system serving the Greater Kochi region in Kerala, India. It is the first water metro system in India and the first integrated water transport system of this size in Asia. When fully operational, it will connect Kochi ’s ...