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Week 38 · 2026English editionRecord

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Place

Piplon Dam

Masonry Gravity dam · RA67MH0232

Piplon Dam is a masonry gravity dam on the Wakyo in Banswara district, Rajasthan, completed in 2016; the National Register of Specified Dams 2025 records it as 25.1 m high above lowest foundation level, a crest length of 335 m, with a gross storage capacity of 4.3 million cubic metres (register identifier RA67MH0232).

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Piplon Dam is at 23.2251° N, 74.6581° E, per the register's coordinates.
Piplon Dam is at 23.2251° N, 74.6581° 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 · 25.1 m

  • Crest length · 335 m

  • Gross storage capacity · 4.3 MCM

  • Live storage capacity · 3.95 MCM

  • Spillway capacity · 273 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”

River

Appears on

Also on Dams of Banswara District

Piplon Dam is no. 22 of 25 on this list.