Salal Dam:
Authorities recently opened all gates of the Salal Dam in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district after heavy rainfall triggered a sharp rise in water inflow into the Chenab River and the dam reservoir.
- The Salal Dam, also known as Salal Hydroelectric Power Station, is a 690 MW run-of-the-river power project on the Chenab River in the Reasi District of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Though the dam was first conceptualized in 1920, the construction commenced in 1970 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in 1987.
- This was the first hydropower project, which was built by India under the Indus Water Treaty regime in Kashmir.
- The project is developed and owned by National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC).
- Jammu and Kashmir receives 12.5 percent of the energy generated from the project.
- The rest is transmitted to the Northern Grid, where it is distributed to the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh.
- Jammu and Kashmir also purchases additional power at regular prices.
