{"id":10311,"date":"2025-01-05T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T04:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10311"},"modified":"2025-03-29T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:59:03","slug":"polavaram-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/polavaram-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Polavaram Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Polavaram Project:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>multi-purpose irrigation project<\/strong> built on the <strong>Godavari River<\/strong> in West Godavari district and East Godavari district in <strong>Andhra Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It involves the <strong>construction of a dam<\/strong> to address water scarcity, boost agricultural productivity, and generate power.\n<ul>\n<li>The span of the dam is about 1.2 km, having a pier height of 54 m and a total of 48 radial gates (16mx20m).<\/li>\n<li>Designed <strong>to withstand massive floods<\/strong> that could occur once in 1000 years, the <strong>Polavaram Spillway<\/strong> is <strong>set to have the highest discharge capacity in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>At 50 lakh cusecs, it is set to surpass even the 3 Gorges Dam of China, one of the largest dams in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It has been <strong>accorded national project status<\/strong> by the central government.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is intended for development of a gross <strong>irrigation potential<\/strong> of 4,36,825 ha.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The project also envisages the generation of <strong>960 MW of hydropower, drinking water supply<\/strong> to a population of 28.50 lakh in 611 villages, and <strong>diversion of 80 TMC of water to the Krishna River basin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The dam will <strong>help manage floodwaters from the Godavari River<\/strong>, reducing risks to nearby communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Hydropower?<\/h3>\n<p>Hydropower, or hydroelectric power, is one of the oldest and largest sources of renewable energy, which uses the natural flow of moving water to generate electricity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/tgana-to-rope-in-iit-h-experts-to-study-impact-of-polavaram-project-on-godavari-101736015917290-amp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>T\u2019gana to rope in IIT-H experts to study impact of Polavaram project on Godavari<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polavaram Project is a multi-purpose irrigation project built on the Godavari River in West Godavari district and East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}