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Week 38 · 2026English editionRecord

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Place

Swaroop Sagar Dam

Composite dam · RA11MH0003

Swaroop Sagar Dam is a composite dam on the Amarjok in Udaipur district, Rajasthan, completed in 1560; the National Register of Specified Dams 2025 records it as 15.25 m high above lowest foundation level, a crest length of 660 m, with a gross storage capacity of 13.69 million cubic metres (register identifier RA11MH0003).

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Swaroop Sagar Dam is at 24.5919° N, 73.6854° E, per the register's coordinates.
Swaroop Sagar Dam is at 24.5919° N, 73.6854° 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 · 15.25 m

  • Gross storage capacity · 13.69 MCM

  • Crest length · 660 m

  • Live storage capacity · 9.01 MCM

  • Spillway capacity · 564.71 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 Udaipur District

Swaroop Sagar Dam is no. 50 of 52 on this list.