{"id":8313,"date":"2023-04-06T02:31:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8313"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:47:14","slug":"subansiri-dam-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/subansiri-dam-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Subansiri Dam Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About<\/strong> the <strong>Subansiri Dam project:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the biggest hydroelectric project undertaken in India so far.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>run-of-river scheme<\/strong> on <strong>river Subansiri.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Location: <\/strong>The Project is located near North Lakhimpur on the border of <strong>Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Capacity:<\/strong>2000MW<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>concrete gravity dam<\/strong> 116 m high from river bed level.<\/li>\n<li>It is being developed by the state-run <strong>National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Subansiri River<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It originates in the <strong>Tibet Plateau<\/strong> and is the largest tributary of the <strong>Brahmaputra River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The high topographic variation makes this river a potential zone for harnessing it for the hydropower<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is a Gravity dam?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Gravity dams are massive structure dams which are constructed of <strong>concrete or stone masonry.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This type of structure is <strong>durable<\/strong> and requires very <strong>little maintenance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is hydroelectric power?<\/h3>\n<p>Hydroelectric power is also called hydropower where electricity is produced from generators driven by turbines that convert the potential energy of falling or fast flowing water into mechanical energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/guwahati\/landslide-hits-subansiri-dam-project-nothing-to-panic-assures-nhpc-8538727\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Landslide hits Subansiri dam project; \u2018Nothing to panic\u2019, assures NHPC<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Subansiri dam project  is the biggest hydroelectric project undertaken in India so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8313","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\/8313","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=8313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}