{"id":13285,"date":"2023-07-21T05:54:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T00:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13285"},"modified":"2025-04-02T03:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:38:40","slug":"ranjit-sagar-dam-rsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ranjit-sagar-dam-rsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranjit Sagar Dam (RSD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ranjit Sagar Dam (RSD):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ranjit Sagar Dam, <strong>also known as the Thein Dam<\/strong>, is a major <strong>water reservoir and hydroelectric power projec<\/strong>t located <strong>on the Ravi River in the state of Punjab<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is located about <strong>24 kilometers (15 miles) from the international border with Pakistan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The dam was constructed to harness the waters of the Ravi River and was <strong>completed in 2000.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>concrete gravity dam with a height of about 162 meters<\/strong> (531 feet) and <strong>a length of approximately 518 meters <\/strong>(1,699 feet).<\/li>\n<li>The dam <strong>creates a vast reservoir known as the Ranjit Sagar Lake or Thein Lake<\/strong>. The reservoir has a <strong>storage capacity of around 0.97 billion cubic meters<\/strong> (789,000 acre-feet) and helps regulate water flow for various purposes.<\/li>\n<li>It has an <strong>installed capacity of 600 megawatts (MW) .<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key facts about Ravi River:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: It originates in the western Himalayas in the Multhan tehsil of <strong>Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It then <strong>flows through the Indian state of Punjab<\/strong> <strong>and enters Pakistan<\/strong>, where it eventually <strong>joins the Chenab River in the province of Punjab<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Length<\/strong>: <strong>The total length<\/strong> of the Ravi River is approximately <strong>720 kilometers<\/strong> (447 miles). <strong>Around 158 kilometers<\/strong> (98 miles) of the river&#8217;s course <strong>lie in India<\/strong>, and the remaining 562 kilometers (349 miles) flow through Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>: The Ravi River is fed by several tributaries, including the <strong>Bhadal, the Ujh, the Tarnah, and the Basantar rivers in India,<\/strong> and the Aik, the Bara, and the Beas rivers in Pakistan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a gravity dam?<\/h3>\n<p>A gravity dam is a structure designed to withstand loads by its own weight and by its resistance to sliding and overturning on its foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/chandigarh\/in-single-day-record-ranjit-sagar-dam-generates-153-97-lakh-units-8851883\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>In single-day record, Ranjit Sagar Dam generates 153.97 lakh units<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ranjit Sagar Dam is a major water reservoir and hydroelectric power project located on the Ravi River in the state of Punjab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13285","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\/13285","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=13285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}