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Dam (ग्सलाल बाँध in Kashmiri) also known as Salal Hydro-electric
Power Station, is a run-of-the-river hydropower
project on the Chenab River in
the Reasi district of the Jammu and Kashmir.
It was
the first hydropower project built by India in Jammu and Kashmir under
the Indus Water Treaty regime.[2] After
having reached a bilateral agreement with Pakistan in 1978, with
significant concessions made to Pakistan in the design of the dam, reducing its
height, eliminating operating pool, and plugging the under-sluices meant for
sediment management, India completed the project in 1987.
The
concessions made in the interest of bilateralism damaged the long-term
sustainability of the dam, which silted up in five years. It currently runs at
57% capacity factor. Its long-term future is uncertain.
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