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Week 38 · 2026English editionRecord

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Place

Nagda Dam

Earthen dam · RA11MH0127

Nagda Dam is an earthen dam on the Telni in Banswara district, Rajasthan, completed in 1985; the National Register of Specified Dams 2025 records it as 17.3 m high above lowest foundation level, a crest length of 407 m, with a gross storage capacity of 1.28 million cubic metres (register identifier RA11MH0127).

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Nagda Dam is at 23.1681° N, 74.4997° E, per the register's coordinates.
Nagda Dam is at 23.1681° N, 74.4997° 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 · 17.3 m

  • Crest length · 407 m

  • Gross storage capacity · 1.28 MCM

  • Live storage capacity · 1.19 MCM

  • Spillway capacity · 87.37 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”

Appears on

Also on Dams of Banswara District

Nagda Dam is no. 18 of 25 on this list.