- The Maharashtra district of Ahmednagar is home to the “Nilwande Dam.”
- The Pravara River, a tributary of the Godavari River, is where this dam is located.
- The prime minister just dedicated this dam to the country.
- Two connected gravity dams made of roller-compacted concrete make up Nilwande Dam.
- India is the first country where this kind of roller-compacted concrete dam has been constructed.
- The height of the Lower Nilwande Dam is 86 meters, while the Upper Nilwande Dam is 15 meters high.
- This dam’s construction got underway in 1993.
- Although it was finished in 2011, the canals that emerge from it have just recently been built.
- This dam has allowed a canal stretching 85 kilometers to be removed.
