{"id":11350,"date":"2026-06-01T12:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:04:33","slug":"mettur-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mettur-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Mettur Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mettur Dam Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The probability of the Mettur dam getting opened on the scheduled date appears to be remote, in view of the poor storage and the forecast of a poor southwest monsoon (June-September) this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mettur Dam<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located at Mettur, <\/span><b>Salem District, in Tamil Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 65 meters high and 1,700 meters long, it is one of the largest dams in India and the <\/span><b>largest in Tamilnadu.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>constructed in a gorge,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/kaveri-river-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaveri River<\/a> enters the plains.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Built in 1934<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it took 9 years to complete. The <\/span><b>entire work<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was <\/span><b>supervised by the then Governor of Madras, Sir George Stanley.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was constructed for the main <\/span><b>purpose of capturing Kaveri waters for irrigation, drinking water supply, and power generation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Features<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>masonry gravity dam.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reservoir formed by the dam is known as the <\/span><b>Stanley Reservoir.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 It has the contribution to produce <\/span><b>240 MW of hydroelectricity.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a <\/span><b>park adjoining the dam <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the opposite side with lawns and fountains and also has the <\/span><b>Muniappan\/Aiyanar statue in the vicinity.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> dam receives inflows <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from its <\/span><b>own catchment area, Kabini Dam, and Krishna Raja Sagara Dams located in Karnataka.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides irrigation facilities to parts of Salem, the length of Erode, Namakkal, Karur, Tiruchirappali, and Thanjavur districts for 271,000 acres of farmland.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/mettur-dam-may-not-be-opened-for-irrigation-on-june-12\/article71042115.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mettur Dam is located at Mettur, Salem District, in Tamil Nadu. 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