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Teesta-V Hydropower Station

Kumari Sonali

Teesta-V Hydropower Station:

A landslide damaged six houses and a building of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) at the site of its Teesta-V hydropower station in Sikkim’s Gangtok district recently.

  • Teesta-V Hydropower Station is a 510 MW hydropower project located on the Teesta River basin in Gangtok district, Sikkim.
  • This run-of-river project has an 88.6-meter high, 176.5-meter-long, concrete gravity dam impounding a regulating reservoir for daily power peaking.
  • It has been developed in a single phase. The project construction commenced in 1999 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in 2008.
  • The project is developed and owned bythe National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC).
  • Teesta River is a trans-Himalayan River flowing through the Indian states of Sikkim and West Bengal and Rangpur in Bangladesh.
  • It is a tributary of Brahmaputra river.
  • This river forms a boundary between Sikkim and West Bengal.

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