{"id":17649,"date":"2023-12-02T05:13:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17649"},"modified":"2025-04-05T05:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T00:13:01","slug":"nsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagarjuna Sagar Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Nagarjuna Sagar Dam<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0built between the Nalgonda district of\u00a0Telangana and the Guntur district of\u00a0Andhra Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>It is built\u00a0across the River Krishna.<\/li>\n<li>It is the largest and\u00a0highest masonry dam in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The dam is\u00a0150m tall and 1.6 km long.<\/li>\n<li>The dam has a storage capacity of nearly 11,472 million cubic meters and an irrigation capacity of 9.81 lack acres of land.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0derives its name from\u00a0a nearby hillock and island\u00a0called Nagarjunakonda, where an ancient Buddhist Guru had once lived.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also\u00a0one of the earliest projects built in post-independence India for irrigation and hydroelectricity generation.<\/li>\n<li>The construction of the dam commenced in 1956 and was completed by 1967.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This dam\u00a0supports the national grid with its electric power and provides irrigation water to five districts, including Khamman District, Nalgonda District, Guntur District, Prakasam District and Krishna District.<\/li>\n<li>As per the provisions of the\u00a0Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, Nagarjunasagar\u00a0dam is controlled and supervised by Telangana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Krishna River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a river in\u00a0south-central India.<\/li>\n<li>Origin: It rises in\u00a0western Maharashtra state\u00a0in the\u00a0Western Ghats\u00a0range near the town of\u00a0Mahabaleshwar.<\/li>\n<li>In terms of water inflows and river basin, Krishna is the\u00a0fourth biggest river after Ganga, Godavari, and Brahmaputra.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Total Length: 1300 km\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Course: It passes through\u00a0Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and\u00a0meets the Bay of Bengal at Hamasaladeevi\u00a0in Andhra Pradesh, on the east coast.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Krishna River Basin extends over an area of about 258,948 sq. km, which is nearly\u00a08 percent of the total\u00a0geographical area of the country.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Tributaries:\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0most important tributary\u00a0is the Tungabhadra River. It has been formed by the Tunga River and the Bhadra River, which originate in the Western Ghats.<\/li>\n<li>Other tributaries\u00a0include the\u00a0Koyna River,\u00a0Bhima River, Kundali River,\u00a0Malaprabha River,\u00a0Ghataprabha, Yerla River,\u00a0Warana River, Dindi River,\u00a0Musi River, and Dudhganga River.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014?<\/h3>\n<p>The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 provides for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into the successor states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Among other things, it addresses the representation of the states in Parliament, separate Legislative Assemblies and Legislative Councils for both states, role of the Governor, revenue distribution, distribution of cash and credit balances, management and development of water resources, and creation of separate cadres for administrative, police and forest services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/hyderabad\/in-midnight-operation-before-telangana-polls-andhra-pradesh-takes-over-half-of-dam\/articleshow\/105639490.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>In midnight operation before Telangana polls, Andhra Pradesh takes over half of dam<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is built between the Nalgonda district of Telangana and the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17649","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\/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":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17650"}],"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}]}}