Narmada Dam

Canals of 6,000 km yet to be built as part of Narmada project: Gujarat govt

Canals with a cumulative length of nearly 6,000 km are yet to be constructed as part of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada project, the Gujarat government told the legislative assembly on Friday. Replying to a written query by Congress MLA Arjun Modhwadia on the status of the Narmada project, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, who handles the Narmada portfolio, said canals with a cumulative length of 5,975.62 km are yet to be built. Although the main canal running up to 458.32 kilometres has been completed, 0.92 km of branch canals, 171.67 km of distributaries, 1,070.84 km of minor canals and 4,732.19 km of sub-minor canals are yet to be constructed in the state, Patel said in his written reply during the Question Hour. He said pending works of minor canals would be completed at the earliest, subject to land acquisition and grant of permissions by various departments, as they passed through forests, sanctuaries and under utilities like oil pipelines and power lines. Since sub-minor canals are

World's largest floating solar power plant to be built in Madhya Pradesh

With an aim to increase the power generation capacity of Madhya Pradesh, a floating solar power plant will be built on Narmada's Omkareshwar Dam, which will generate 600 Megawatt power by 2022-23.

Modi to visit Narmada dam on birthday, start river clean-up project

The PM will visit the site of the Gujarat's Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river whose water level has reached its highest mark for the first time to celebrate the feat

PM Modi to dedicate Narmada Dam to nation today

The foundation stone of the dam was laid on April 5, 1961 by the country's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru

Government looks to fill up Narmada reservoir

Expert on panel points to lack of independent review of environmental safeguards