India, land of rivers has a huge potential to store water in massive dams for agriculture, industries and fullfil daily requirement of country’s huge population.
India already has world class dams and some projects are in pipeline. Goverment of India launched a scheme that is called “Jal jivan mission (har gar swachch jal).” It will be possible only by Indian rivers water and making dams on them.
India has already constructed a huge number of several dams and water reservoirs, with approximately 4300 already-constructed large dams.
List of Dams and Rivers in India 2021 Andhra Pradesh S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Somasila Dam Penna 2 Nagarjuna Sagar Dam (also in Telangana) Krishna 3 Srisailam Dam (also in Telangana) Krishna 4 Polavaram Project, Polavaram Godavari 5 Somasila Dam Pennar
Arunachal Pradesh S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Ranganadi Dam Ranganadi
Bihar S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Nagi Dam Nagi
Chhattisgarh S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Minimata (Hasdeo) Bango Dam Hasdeo
Gujarat S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Karjan Dam Karjan 2 Kadana Dam Mahi 3 Sardar Sarover Dam Narmada 4 Ukai Dam Tapi 5 Dharoi Dam Sabarmati 6 Dantiwada Dam Dantiwada 7 Kadana Dam Mahi
Himachal Pradesh S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Bhakra Dam Sutlej 2 Chamera Dam Ravi 3 Kishau Dam Tons 4 Koldam Dam Sutlej 5 Nathpa Jhakri Dam Sutlej 6 Pandoh Dam Beas
Jammu & Kashmir S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Baglihar Dam Chenab 2 Chutak Hydroelectric Plant Suru 3 Nimoo Bazgo Hydroelectric Plant Indus 4 Salal Dam Chenab 5 Uri Dam Jhelum
Jharkhand S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Chandil Dam Subarnarekha 2 Maithon Dam Barakar 3 Panchet Dam Damodar 4 Tenughat Dam Damodar
Karnataka S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Almatti Dam Krishna 2 Bhadra Dam Bhadra 3 Hemavati Dam Hemavati 4 Hidkal Dam Ghataprabha 5 Krishna Raja Sagar Dam Kaveri 6 Lakhya Dam Lakhya Hole 7 Linganamakki Dam Saraswathi 8 Malaprabha Dam Malaprabha 9 Supa Dam Kali 10 Tungabhadra Dam Tungabhadra
Kerala S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Cheruthoni Dam Cheruthoni 2 Idamalayar Dam Idamalayar 3 Idukki Arch Dam Periyar 4 Kakki Dam Kakki 5 Kulamavu Dam Kilivillithode 6 Mullaperiyar Dam Periyar 7 Walayar Dam Walayar 8 Neyyar Dam Neyyar
Madhya Pradesh S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Ban Sagar Dam Sone 2 Gandhi Sagar Dam Chambal 3 Indira Sagar Dam Narmada 4 Omkareshwar Dam Narmada 5 Tawa Dam Tawa 6 Rajghat Dam Betwa
Maharashtra S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Bhatsa Dam Bhatsa and Chorna 2 Isapur Dam Penganga 3 Koyna Dam Koyna 4 Warna Dam Varna 5 Totladoh Dam Pench 6 Radhanagari Dam Bhogawati 7 Bhandardara Dam Paravara 8 Khadakwasla Dam Mutha 9 Panshet Dam Ambi 10 Jayakwadi Dam Godavari 11 Mulshi Dam Mula
Odisha S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Hirakud Dam Mahanadi 2 Indravati Dam Indravati 3 Kapur Dam Kapur 4 Muran Dam Muran 5 Podagada Dam Podagada 6 Rengali Dam Brahmani 7 Upper Kolab Dam Kolab
Punjab S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Ranjit Sagar Dam Ravi
Rajasthan S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Bisalpur Dam Banas 2 Jawahar Sagar Dam Chambal 3 Mahi Bajaj Sagar Dam Mahi 4 Rana Pratap Sagar Dam Chambal
Sikkim S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Rangit III Dam Rangit 2 Rangpo Dam Rangpo 3 Rongli Dam Rongli 4 Teesta -V (NHPC) Dam Teesta 5 Teesta-III Dam Teesta 6 Teesta-IV Dam Teesta
Tamil Nadu S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Lower Bhavani Dam Bhavani 2 Mettur Dam Kaveri 3 Sholayar Dam Sholayar 4 Upper Bhavani Dam Bhavani 5 Perunchani Dam Paralayar
Telangana S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Sriram Sagar Project Godavari 2 Nizam Sagar Dam Godavari 3 Nagarjuna Sagar Dam Krishna
Uttarakhand S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Jamrani Dam Gola 2 Lakhwar Dam Yamuna 3 Koteshwar Dam Bhagirathi 4 Ramganga Dam Ramganga 5 Tehri Dam Bhagirathi
West Bengal S.No. Name of the Dam River 1 Kangsabati Dam Kangsabati
