Dulhasti Power Station
Context:
Dulhasti Power Station organized a seminar under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
About the Dulhasti Hydroelectric Plant:
- Dulhasti (or Dul Hasti) Hydroelectric plant is a 390 MW hydroelectric power plant in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.
- It is a run-of-the-river type on the Chenab River.
- It consists of a 70 m (230 ft) tall gravity dam that diverts water through a 9.5 km (5.9 mi) long headrace tunnel to the power station which discharges back into the Chenab.
- The project provides peaking power to the Northern Grid with beneficiary states being Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Delhi and Union Territory of Chandigarh.
- It was constructed between 1985 and 2007. The project was operationalised in 2007.
- Because of the time and cost overruns, it represents an example of a disaster in project cost estimation and delivery.
Also read: Hydroelectric Power Plants in India
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