{"id":23627,"date":"2026-10-03T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23627"},"modified":"2026-10-03T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:38:16","slug":"ujani-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ujani-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Ujani Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ujani Dam Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A community-driven project in Solapur and Pune, Maharashtra, aims to rid the Ujani dam catchment areas of invasive fish species and reintroduce native varieties.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ujani Dam<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ujjani Dam, also known as <\/span><b>Bhima Dam <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or <\/span><b>Bhima Irrigation Project,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is located on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bhima-river\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Bhima River<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (a <\/span><b>tributary of the Krishna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> River) near Ujjani village in the Solapur district of Maharashtra.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is out of the 22 dams formed by the Bhima River; it is the <\/span><b>terminal dam on the river <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and is the<\/span><b> largest in the Bhima Valley.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>earth-fill cum masonry gravity dam.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was constructed between 1977 and 1980 with the primary objective of providing <\/span><b>irrigation water and hydroelectric power <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a total length of 2,534 m, the Ujani Dam is <\/span><b>founded on massive basaltic rock formations <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and comprises a central portion, which is the spillway dam of 602 m in length.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dam has a height of 63 meters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Power Generation Capacity: 12 MW<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Pollution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The water quality of the Ujani Dam is very bad, as it contains hazardous <\/span><b>pollutants from Pune<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and many <\/span><b>other small cities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located on the banks of the Bhima River or its tributaries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/magazine\/environment\/story\/20261012-battle-of-the-fishes-maharashtras-ujani-dam-3007883-2026-10-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>IT<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ujani Dam is located on the Bhima River (a tributary of the Krishna River) near Ujjani village in the Solapur district of Maharashtra. 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