{"id":16796,"date":"2025-11-02T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16796"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:27:09","slug":"vaigai-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vaigai-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaigai Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Vaigai Dam Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The timely onset of the northeast monsoon and water release from the Vaigai dam have invigorated Madurai&#8217;s farming community, prompting a rapid and widespread launch of paddy cultivation across the district&#8217;s double-crop regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Vaigai Dam<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was built in the year 1959 across the <\/span><b>Vaigai River.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam measures 111 ft in height and the total storage capacity is 6,143 mcft.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam has been the<\/span><b> lifeline of the agricultural lands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the districts of <\/span><b>Madurai and Dindigul. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also provides <\/span><b>drinking water to Madurai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Andipatti.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam also has a <\/span><b>hydropower station<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that generates <\/span><b>6 megawatts of electricit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Near the dam, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Government of Tamil Nadu has constructed an <\/span><b>Agricultural Research Station<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to research on a wide variety of crops including cereals and pulses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a <\/span><b>small beautiful garden<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on both sides of the Vaigai Dam <\/span><b>called Little Brindavan <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that is connected by a small bridge.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Facts about Vaigai River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a river in <strong>T<\/strong><\/span><b>amil Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is considered to be one of the most <\/span><b>sacred and ancient rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India, as it is <\/span><b>mentioned in several Tamil literary and religious texts,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as the<\/span><b> Silappatikaram,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Thiruvilayadal Puranam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><b>Thirumurugatruppadai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>originates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the Varusanadu and Megamalai hills of the <\/span><b>Western Ghats.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It travels through the <\/span><b>Pandya Nadu region of Tamil Nadu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> generally in the south-east direction and rarely causes floods.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>drains into the Palk Strait<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> near the Pamban Bridge in Ramanathapuram district.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Length<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is <\/span><b>258 kilometres<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> long.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It drains an area of 7,741 sq.km, which entirely lies in the state of Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vaigai <\/span><b>gets major feed from the Periyar Dam in Kerala. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water from the Periyar River in Kerala is diverted into the Vaigai River in Tamil Nadu via a tunnel through the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tributaries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Its main tributaries are S<\/span><b>uruliyaru, Mullaiyaru, Varaganadhi,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Manjalaru, Kottagudi, Kridhumaal, and Upparu.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">It is the major <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">river in the fabled city of Madurai, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">capital of the ancient and prosperous Pandya kingdom<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in southern Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/madurai\/rain-vaigai-dam-fill-madurai-farmers-with-hope-surge-in-paddy-cultivation\/articleshow\/125022263.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vaigai Dam, built in 1959, spans the sacred Vaigai River of Tamil Nadu, a river praised in ancient Tamil texts and originating from the Western Ghats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":71824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[246,21,23,3512],"class_list":{"0":"post-16796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-current-affairs","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"tag-vaigai-dam","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796","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=16796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}