Wednesday, September 3, 2014

JAWAHAR SAGAR

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JAWAHAR SAGAR  is also located in kota city of rajasthan . It is a small dam compare to kota barrage . The difference between kota barrage and Jawahar sagar very large area .
The Command Area of Chambal is located in Kota, Bundi and Baran districts of Rajasthan and is centered at Kota city of Kota. These Panchayat Samities are Ladpura, Sultanpur, Itawa in Kota district . There are two main canals taking off from the Kota Barrage.  High cement concerated gravity dam is located at a distance of 29 Kms from kota barrage . The Right Main Canal is the 372 Kms and  long (124 Km. in Rajasthan) while the Left Main Canal is 2.74 Km. upstream of Kota Barrage to utilise the fall in the river bed for power generation.  Three units each of 33 MW capacity have been installed at this power station. The water carrying capacity of the RMC is 6656 cusecs. Left main canal is designed to carry water at the rate of 1500 cusecs . The gross command area in Rajasthan is about 4,85,000 hectares and the net command area is 2.29 lac hectares. The total geographical area of the six PanchayatSamities is about 42% of the total Kota, Bundi & Baran districts . The rivers  are  free flowing and have adequate conveyance channels. These  channels and the net work of meandering gullies which are tributaries to them form the primary drainage system of the area.


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