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Government of India Central Waterways Irrigation and Navigation Commission. Mahanadi Valley Development Hirakud Dam Project June 1947

1947

This Project Report contains an outline of these surveys and investigtions sets out the many problems of Orissa and indicates the magnitude of her natural resources and the immense possibilities for the conservation and utilsation of these resources for the benefit of the common man and the nation. [...] The Mahanadi the biggest river of Orissa carries annually 74 million acre feet of water which is only slightly less than the volume of water carried by the Indus in the Punjab but is very much in excess of that carried by the Tennessee river in U. S. A. A look at the mineral map of the region (Plate II) will give an idea of the great potential mineral wealth of Orissa and the neighbouring areas [...]. I-1°1er wkll be generated at the Hirakud Dam in two parts ; one at the main dam at Hirakud to utilise the fall created by the construction of the dam ; and the second al the subsidiary dam forming the balancing reservoir at the end of the power channel from the upper power house to utilise the steep *ope the river below 1-ilirakud. [...] The rates will be governed by the size of the load load fator the distance of transmission and the nature of the industry concerned. [...] it will mark the beginning of an.era; of higher standards of living for the common man of freedom from floods famines want drudgery and disease.xiv RECOMMENDATIONS (1) The klirakud :Dam Project should be sanctioned forthwith.' The feasbility utility and economies of the project should be judged in the light of the greater interest of the people of Sambalpur and Orissa as a.whole.
agriculture environment
Pages
412
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146521
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I. Introduction
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Chapter II. Mahanadi Valley Development
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Chapter III. Hirakud Dam Project
17-20 unknown view
Chapter IV. Surveys and Investigations
21-28 unknown view
Chapter V. Rate of Silting of the Hirakud Reservoir
29-32 unknown view
Chapter VI. Reservoir Capacity and Reservoir Level
33-38 unknown view
Chapter VII. Area Submerged Compensation and Resettlement
39-42 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Allocation of Cost Between Flood Control Irrigation and Power
43-46 unknown view
Chapter IX. Flood Regulation
47-50 unknown view
Chapter X. Irrigation
51-58 unknown view
Chapter XI. Power
59-66 unknown view
Chapter XII. Navigation
67-70 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Miscellaneous
71-72 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Industrial Possibilities
73-78 unknown view
Chapter XV. Designs
79-80 unknown view
Chapter XVI. Programme of Construction and Establishment
81-84 unknown view
Chapter XVII. Estimate of Expenditure
85-90 unknown view
Chapter XVIII. Financial Results
91-102 unknown view
Acknowledgements
103-350 unknown view
Plates
i-xix unknown view

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