{"id":14032,"date":"2025-08-28T12:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14032"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:59:17","slug":"pong-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pong-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Pong Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Pong Dam Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The water level breached the danger mark at Pong Dam recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Pong Dam<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pong Dam, also known as the <\/span><b>Beas Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is an<\/span><b> earth-fill embankment dam <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">constructed on the<\/span><b> river Beas <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the wetland of<\/span><b> Shivalik hills <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the Kangra district of <\/span><b>Himachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of the dam is water storage for <\/span><b>irrigation and hydroelectric power generation.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>construction <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the dam began in the year 1961 and was <\/span><b>completed in 1974,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and at that time it was known as the tallest of its type in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The raised water level thus invariably <\/span><b>created an artificial lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> called the <\/span><b>Maharana Pratap Sagar, after the great ruler of Mewar.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was<\/span><b> declared a bird sanctuary <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 1983 due to its <\/span><b>waterfowl diversity.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over time, the reservoir emerged as a <\/span><b>sanctuary for migratory birds,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> leading to its designation as a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/ramsar-sites-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b> Ramsar Wetland Site <\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 2002.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is home to several species of <\/span><b>avifauna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, some of which include <\/span><b>Barheaded Geese, Red-neck Grebe, northern lapwing,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> common teal, spot-billed duck, Eurasian coot, black stork, egrests, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>most important fish reservoir in the foothills of the Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Pong Dam <\/b><b>Features of Dam<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pong Dam is a 133 m tall and 1,951 m long earth-fill embankment dam with a gravel shell.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is 13.72 m wide at its crest, which sits at an elevation of about 435.86 m above sea level.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The base of the Pong Dam is about 610 m wide and has a total volume of 35,500,000 metre cube.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/jalandhar\/water-level-crosses-danger-mark-at-pong-dam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TRIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pong Dam, also known as the Beas Dam, is an earth-fill embankment dam constructed on the river Beas in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. 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