Bhakra Dam - 50 years of its glorious service of the Nation

India Post released a stamp depicting the Bhakra Dam on 22nd October 2013 to celebrate 50 years of its glorious service of the Nation

Golden Jubilee of Bhakra Dam

Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam across the Sutlej River, and is in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh in northern India.

The dam, located at Bhakra village in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh, is India's second tallest at 225.55 m (740 ft) high next to the 261m Tehri Dam . The length of the dam (measured from the road above it) is 518.25 m; it is 9.1 m broad. Its reservoir, known as the "Gobind Sagar", stores up to 9.34 billion cubic metres of water, is spread over an area of 168.35 km². In terms of storage of water, it withholds the second largest reservoir in India, the first being Indira Sagar Dam in Madhya Pradesh with capacity of 12.22 billion cu m.

Bhakra Dam was Described as 'New Temple of Resurgent India' by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. Nangal dam is another dam downstream of Bhakra dam. Sometimes both the dams together are called Bhakra-Nangal dam though they are two separate dams.

Earlier two Stamps were issued on Bhakra Dam by India Post.

A Definitive stamp on Bhakra dam - 15-3-1967

Silver Jubilee of Bhakra dam - 15-12-1988

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