It has been decided by
Department of Posts to release commemorative postage stamp on the occasion of
Golden Jubilee of Bhakra Dam on 22/10/2013. DOP has already issued 15
lacs commemorative postage stamps of denomination of Rs. 0.60 on Bhakra
Dam on 15/12/1988 on its silver jubilee. Definitive Postage stamp worth
Rs. 5/- was also released by the department on 15/3/1967. Bhakra dam will
become the first structure in India which will have two commemorative postal
stamps in its name.
Initially, the construction
of the dam was started by Sir Louis Dane, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab.
But the project got delayed and was restarted soon after Independence. In
October 1963 at the ceremony to mark the dedication of the Bhakra–Nangal
Project to the Nation, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, "This dam has
been built with the unrelenting toil of man for the benefit of mankind and
therefore is worthy of worship. May you call it a Temple or a Gurdwara or a
Mosque, it inspires our admiration and reverence". On 22 October, 2013,
Bhakra Dam is scheduled to be complete, on the 50 year anniversary of the
Nation and Bhakra Beas Management Board. To mark the occasion, Government of
India has approved the release of a Commemorative stamp on 22 October 2013.
The dam, located at a gorge
near the (now submerged) upstream Bhakra village in Bilaspur district of
Himachal Pradesh, is India's second tallest at 225.55 m (740 ft) high
next to the 261m Tehri Dam.
The length of the dam (measured from the road above it) is 518.25 m; it is 9.1
m broad. Its reservoir, known as the "Gobind Sagar", stores up to 9.34
billion cubic metres of water, enough to drain the whole of Chandigarh, parts
of Haryana, Punjab and Delhi. The 90 km long reservoir created by the
Bhakra Dam is spread over an area of 168.35 km2. In terms of
storage of water, it withholds the second largest reservoir in India,
the first being Indira Sagar
Dam inMadhya
Pradesh with capacity of 12.22 billion cu m.
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