{"id":73993,"date":"2026-07-08T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=73993"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:30:59","slug":"kwar-hydroelectric-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kwar-hydroelectric-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwar Hydroelectric Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Kwar Hydroelectric Project Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The heavy rainfall triggered a major landslide near the under-construction 540 MW Kwar Hydroelectric Power Project in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir recently. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Kwar Hydroelectric Project<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>540 MW hydropower project<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chenab-river\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Chenab River<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Kishtwar district of <\/span><b>Jammu and Kashmir.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project is envisaged as a<\/span><b> Run of River Scheme.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project envisages the construction of a <\/span><b>109 m high dam, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an <\/span><b>underground power house<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with 4 units of 135 MW each.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is expected to generate 1,975 million units (MU) of electricity annually.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project is being developed by <\/span><b>Chenab Valley Power Projects Private Ltd. (CVPPL).\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>CVPPL <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a<\/span><b> joint venture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> company between <\/span><b>NHPC Ltd and Jammu &amp; Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (JKSPDC) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with equity contributions of 51 percent and 49 percent, respectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News<\/b><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/india\/2026\/Jul\/06\/heavy-rain-triggers-massive-landslide-near-kwar-power-project-site-in-jks-kishtwar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwar Hydroelectric Project is a 540 MW hydropower project located on the Chenab River in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":112000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3758,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-73993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-kwar-hydroelectric-project","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\/73993","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112011,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73993\/revisions\/112011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}