{"id":16444,"date":"2023-10-29T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T03:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16444"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:55:56","slug":"koyna-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/koyna-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Koyna Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Koyna Dam<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Location: It is one of the largest dams in the state of\u00a0Maharashtra and is located at\u00a0Koyna Nagar in Satara district.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0rubble-concrete dam\u00a0constructed on the Koyna River.<\/li>\n<li>The construction of this dam was completed in 1963 and is amongst the chief civil engineering projects\u00a0built after the independence of India.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0main purpose of dam\u00a0is hydroelectricity\u00a0with some irrigation in neighboring areas.<\/li>\n<li>Koyna Hydroelectric Project is the\u00a0largest completed hydroelectric power plant in India, with a total\u00a0installed capacity of 1,920 MW.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The catchment area\u00a0of the Koyna\u00a0Dam\u00a0blocks up the Koyna River and creates the\u00a0Shivsagar Lake, which is roughly 50 km long.<\/li>\n<li>The dam plays a vital\u00a0role in flood control during monsoon season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Koyna River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0tributary of the Krishna River\u00a0in the\u00a0western part of\u00a0Maharashtra.<\/li>\n<li>Origin: It\u00a0rises near Mahabaleshwar, a famous hill station\u00a0in the Western Ghats.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The river is just\u00a0100 meters wide and flows slowly.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike most\u00a0of the other\u00a0rivers in Maharashtra, which flow East-West\u00a0direction, the\u00a0Koyna River flows in North-South direction.<\/li>\n<li>The river\u00a0merges with\u00a0the\u00a0Krishna River at Karad in the Satara district of Maharashtra.<\/li>\n<li>Due to its electricity-generating potential\u00a0through the Koyna Hydroelectric Project, Koyna River is\u00a0known as the Life Line of Maharashtra.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which are the main tributaries of Krishna River?<\/h3>\n<p>The principal tributaries joining Krishna are the Ghataprabha, the Malaprabha, the Bhima, the Tungabhadra and the Musi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolhapur\/koyna-dam-authorities-propose-water-cuts-for-irrigation-power-generation\/articleshow\/104742174.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Koyna dam authorities propose water cuts for irrigation, power generation\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koyna Dam is one of the largest dams in the state of Maharashtra and is located at Koyna Nagar in Satara district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16444","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\/16444","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=16444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}