{"id":4828,"date":"2023-01-16T09:27:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T03:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:10:30","slug":"tapovan-vishnugad-hydropower-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tapovan-vishnugad-hydropower-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Key Facts about Tapovan Vishnugad Hydel Project<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: The Tapovan Vishnugad power plant is a 520MW run-of-river project being constructed on Dhauliganga River in Chamoli District of Uttarakhand, India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Production Capacity:<\/strong> The plant is expected to generate approximately 2,558GWh of electricity per year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who is developing:<\/strong> NTPC is developing the project at an estimated cost of approximately INR 29.78bn ($677m).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>About Dhauliganga River:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: It rises in the <strong>vicinity of the Niti Pass<\/strong> in the <strong>border regions between Garhwal region of Uttarakhand and southwestern Tibet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>At Raini, it is j<strong>oined by the Rishi Ganga river.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>one of the important tributaries of Alaknanda<\/strong>, the other being the Nandakini, Pindar, Mandakini and Bhagirathi.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>meets the Alaknanda River<\/strong> (the major source stream of the Ganges River) <strong>at Vishnuprayag<\/strong> in Uttarakhand.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Length<\/strong>: The length of this river is about<strong> 94 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tapovan<\/strong>, which is <strong>famous for its hot springs<\/strong>, is located on the banks of Dhauliganga.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>National Thermal Power Corporation\u2019s (NTPC)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it?<\/strong> NTPC Limited is an <strong>Indian Public Sector Undertaking incorporated under the Companies Act 1956.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jurisdiction<\/strong>: It is under the jurisdiction of the <strong>Ministry of Power, Government of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters<\/strong>: New Delhi<\/li>\n<li>NTPC was <strong>conferred Maharatna status <\/strong>in 2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Business<\/strong>: NTPC&#8217;s <strong>core business is generation and sale of electricity<\/strong> to state-owned power distribution companies and State Electricity Boards in India.<\/li>\n<li>The company has also been <strong>involved in oil and gas exploration and coal mining activities.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>NTPC Limited is the <strong>largest power company in India<\/strong> which has a total capacity of 62,086 MW electric power generation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Where is Joshimath town located?<\/h3>\n<p>At a height of 6,107 feet, Joshimath is a busy town in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand. The town, located on the middle slope of a hill, was built on the debris of a landslide triggered by an earthquake more than a century ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/joshimath-sinking-administration-stops-auli-ropeway-construction-work-of-helang-bypass-and-ntpc-hydropower-project\/article66343274.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Joshimath sinking | People panic, projects stopped<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tapovan Vishnugad power plant is a hydel project being constructed on Dhauliganga River in Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4828","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\/4828","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=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}