The Tehri reservoir located in Uttarakhand’s Tehri Dam Project on Friday reached full reservoir capacity of 830m for the first time, THDC India limited said in a statement.
“This day shall be remembered as the beginning of a new era in the history of the Tehri dam project from where it started delivering the maximum intended benefits to the society fully,” the company said. The company also thanked Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and state irrigation minister Satpal Maharaj. It said that Maharaj acknowledged the situation of wastage of national resources in view of restricted impoundment of the reservoir and granted the permission to fill the reservoir to its full capacity.
