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Week 38 · 2026English editionRecord

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Badi Mansarowar Dam

Earthen dam · RA11MH0159

Badi Mansarowar Dam is an earthen dam on the Local Nala in Chittorgarh district, Rajasthan, completed in 2000; the National Register of Specified Dams 2025 records it as 14.77 m high above lowest foundation level, a crest length of 248 m, with a gross storage capacity of 9.48 million cubic metres (register identifier RA11MH0159).

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Badi Mansarowar Dam is at 24.5167° N, 74.6558° E, per the register's coordinates.
Badi Mansarowar Dam is at 24.5167° N, 74.6558° E, per the register’s coordinates. Boundary: DataMeet community maps (divisions dataset, 2011 Census), CC BY 4.0.

Location

Measurements

  • Height above lowest foundation level · 14.77 m

  • Crest length · 248 m

  • Gross storage capacity · 9.48 MCM

  • Live storage capacity · 8.42 MCM

  • Spillway capacity · 661.7 m³/s

Source for the figures above

  • National Register of Specified Dams 2025cwc.gov.in

    “"Specified Dam" means a dam constructed before or after the commencement of this Act, which is, — (i) above fifteen metres in height, measured from the lowest portion of the general foundation area to the top of dam”

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Also on Dams of Chittorgarh District

Badi Mansarowar Dam is no. 1 of 25 on this list.