A Report On Industrial Visit Of

Sardar Sarovar Dam

 Content

1. Acknowledgement
2. Introduction
3. Description of component of dam
4. Purpose of Visit
5. What we learnt?
6. Conclusion
 Acknowledgement
 The students of Civil engineering Department, were
really thankful to our Principal and head of
department of civil branch of SRPEC, Dr. Ami H Shah
and Proff. H.V. Patel Sir for an educational visit of
Sardar Sarovar Dam.
 We are also very thankful to the authority of Sardar
Sarovar Dam Project site which provided us an
informative guidance and gave practice based
approach learning to students and shared their
knowledge with students.
 Introduction
 The Foundation Of A Sardar Sarovar Dam On
Narmada River Was Laid on April 5 ,1961, By The
First P.M. Jawaharlal Neharu.
 It is the largest westward flowing river in India.
 It is starting from amarkantak rock which is situated
near at Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh.
 It irrigate 18 lakh hectors of land of Gujrat.
 The water from Narmada is flowing in 9000 villages
through canal network.
 Its coverage area is Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh
and Gujarat.
 It is about 1300k.m long and at last is meet to the
Arabian Sea near Bharuch.
 There was many dams are constructed on the
Narmada river. Like Bargi, Tawa, Narmada Sagar,
Omkareshwar, Maheshwar and SardarSarovar.
So, we are study about SardarSarovar dam in detail.

Description
1. Location:
 State : Gujarat
 District : Narmada
 Taluka : Rajpipala (Nandod)
 River : Narmada

2. Dam:
 Type: concrete gravity
 Length of main dam: 1210.02 m.
 Top R.L. of dam: 146.50 m.

3. Spillway:
 Type: ogee
 Spillway capacity: 84949.25 cumec
(30 lakh cusec)

4. Gates:
 Type: Radial
 Number and size: 7 nos. 18.30 m × 18.30
m
 23 nos.18.30 m × 16.76 m
7. Power installation:
 Type of Power House:-
River bed and Canal head Power House
 Type of turbine:
River bed:- Francis vertical (Reversible)
Canal head:- Kaplan (Convention surface)
 Installed capacity::
River bed:- 1200 mw
Canal head:- 250 mw
 Purpose of Visit
Our main purpose of the visit was to be familiar with
experience of field work and to get practical knowledge of
routing of canal and directing water through dams and
distribution of water. Students of civil branch will get the
idea of dams and canals and their purposes. Students will
also get familiar with length, Height, No of gates of dam.
 What we learnt?
The Narmada, the largest flowing Westward, rises near
Amarkantak range of mountains in Madhya Pradesh. It is
the fifth largest river in the country and the largest one in
Gujarat.

This dam with its 7 Radial gates each having size 60' x 60'
and for service spillway, 23 Radial gates of size 60' x 55'
are to be provided to negotiate the design flood.

The total basin area of the river is 97,410 square kilometer

comprising 85,858 square kilometer in Madhya Pradesh,
1658 square kilometer in Maharashtra and 9894 square
kilometer in Gujarat.

There are two power houses for the Sardar Sarovar

Project (SSP). (i)1200 MW River Bed Power House and (ii)
250 MW Canal Head Power House. Power benefits are
shared among Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat
in the ratio of 57:27:16 respectively.
 Conclusion
From this visit, we got information and practical
knowledge about distribution of water and storage of
water About 44 students were benefited from this visit
as they got chance to discuss with authorities working
at dam.

Thus, this site visit was very delightful and we had a

great knowledgeable experience. We were really
satisfied and had a great time.