{"id":17649,"date":"2026-08-06T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17649"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:15:25","slug":"nsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagarjuna Sagar Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Nagarjuna Sagar Dam Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nagarjuna Sagar, one of the most significant multipurpose irrigation projects in the country, recently completed 59 years of its existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Nagarjuna Sagar Dam<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>largest and highest masonry dam in the world <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">built <\/span><b>between <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Nalgonda district of<\/span><b> Telangana and <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Guntur district of<\/span><b> Andhra Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Built across the Krishna River,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it boasts of <\/span><b>one of the largest networks of canal systems <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It derives its name from a <\/span><b>nearby hillock and island called Nagarjunakonda,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where an <\/span><b>ancient Buddhist Guru had once lived.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam is 150 m tall and <\/span><b>1.6 km long. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam comprises 26 gates, which are all 45 feet tall and 42 feet wide.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam has a storage capacity of nearly 11,472 million cubic meters and an irrigation capacity of 9.81 lakh acres of land.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Considering the tourism prospects, a <\/span><b>lake <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been developed just <\/span><b>behind the dam, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which is the<\/span><b> third largest man-made lake in the world.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>one of the earliest projects built in post-independence India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for irrigation and hydroelectricity generation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The construction of the dam commenced in 1956 and was <\/span><b>completed by 1967.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This dam<\/span><b> supports the national grid with its electric power.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam plays a crucial role for<\/span><b> irrigation in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> states.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per the provisions of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/andhra-pradesh-reorganisation-amendment-bill-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014<\/a><\/strong>, the Nagarjunasagar dam is<\/span><b> controlled and supervised by Telangana.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etvbharat.com\/en\/state\/nagarjuna-sagar-stands-out-as-a-temple-of-modern-india-enn26080503489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>ETVB<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is the largest and highest masonry dam in the world built between the Nalgonda district of Telangana and the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":117513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9304,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-17649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-nagarjuna-sagar-dam","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649","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=17649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117563,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions\/117563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}