Gurpreet Singh Sohel, Senior Design Engineer, TCPL, New Delhi
The Omkareshwar Dam Project was conceived in 1965 as an irrigation and power dam to be built in the Central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh. The project entails the construction of a 73 meter high concrete gravity dam on the Narmada River about 1 km upstream of Mandhata Island, where the famous temple town of Omkareshwar is situated. At full reservoir level, the project will submerge 93 sq km including up to 5800 ha of forest lands and some 30 villages in the Khandwa and Dewas Districts of Madhya Pradesh. The dam is envisaged to provide up to 520 MW of electricity nd will irrigate 147,000 hectares.
The broad scope of the project was to construct a spillway type Dam across river Narmada. It included the construction of power house for electricity generation (8x65 MW) and a bridge over the spillway to serve the functional & operational requirement of the spillway.
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- NBM&CW September 2008
