Mangla Dam
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The Mangla Dam is a multipurpose dam located on the Jhelum River in the Mirpur District of Pakistani State of Azad Kashmir. It is the seventh largest dam in the world.
The Mangla dam project was conceived as a multipurpose project in the 1950s, and its initial investment and feasibility studies were concluded in 1958 (1). It was the first dam to be built as a part of the Indus Basin Project as per the Indus water treaty signed between India and Pakistan in 1960. This treaty was signed under the aegis of the World Bank and assigned the three Eastern rivers (Ravi, Beas and Sutlej) to India and three Western rivers (Indus, Jhelum & Chenab) to Pakistan (2). The site of the dam is located in the Mirpur district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), also known as Azad Kashmir, which is a supposedly self-governing administrative division of Pakistan, and has been a constant source of territorial conflict over India and Pakistan.
Mandal Dam is the Pakistan's second most electricity production Dam using hydropower unit of 1000MW.
The Dam consist of 10 samller units ,each of 100MW.The 13KV volts are generated.
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As a consequence of partition of the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent in 1947, India and Pakistan became two independent sovereign states. The Irrigation System which existed at the time of partition in 1947 was divided between the two countries without any regards to the irrigation boundaries resulting in an international water dispute which was resolved by signing of the Indus Water Treaty in 1960 under the aegis of World Bank. The Treaty assigned three Eastern rivers (Ravi, Beas and Sutlej) to India and three Western rivers (Indus, Jhelum & Chenab) to Pakistan. IBIS ManglaIt also provided construction of replacement works called Indus Basin Project (IBP) to compensate for perpetual loss of Eastern river's water. The works proposed under the Treaty included two multipurpose dams from one of which is Mangla Dam on Jhelum river having the provision of Power Generation.
Mangla Dam Project was actually conceived in 1950's as a multipurpose project to be constructed at a place called Mangla on river Jhelum located about 30 km upstream of Jhelum city. The initial investigation & its feasibility studies were completed in 1958. Later on the project was included in the Indus Basin Project. The construction of Mangla Dam was started in 1962 and completed in 1967.
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