Monday, November 15, 2010

Hirakud Dam

Hirakud, a dam project at Sambalpur in Odisha as longest dam in the world. After high-flood in 1937 a proposal given by Odia Engineer. The first batch of concrete was laid by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru on 12th, April in 1948 meet to probable needs of irrigation along with power supply. Fully started in the year 1966...click here