{"id":81992,"date":"2021-02-11T18:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=81992"},"modified":"2021-03-01T14:34:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:04:57","slug":"tapovan-vishnugad-hydropower-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tapovan-vishnugad-hydropower-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rescue operations are still undergoing in Uttarakhand from a Tapovam tunnel located at the Tapovan-Vishnugad hydro project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower Plant <\/strong>is a 520 MW run-of-river hydroelectric project(See image). It was constructed by National Thermal Power Corporation Limited(NTPC) on Dhauliganga River in Chamoli District of Uttarakhand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-82134\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Runoff_hydro_power.jpg?resize=404%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The power plant is located on the downstream on the Alaknanda River (one of the two headstreams of the Ganges).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Damaged: <\/strong>It was severely damaged in February 2021 due to flash flood caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/glacial-lake-outburst-flood-glof-in-uttarakhand-explained\/\">Uttarakhand glacier burst<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/glacial-lake-outburst-floods-glof\/\">Read more about Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/uttarakhand-avalanche-slush-being-removed-from-tapovan-hydel-project-tunnel\/article33799016.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The rescue operations are still undergoing in Uttarakhand from a Tapovam tunnel located at the Tapovan-Vishnugad hydro project. \u00a0Facts: Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower Plant is a 520 MW run-of-river hydroelectric project(See image). It was constructed by National Thermal Power Corporation Limited(NTPC) on Dhauliganga River in Chamoli District of Uttarakhand. The power plant&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tapovan-vishnugad-hydropower-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[1477,1397],"class_list":["post-81992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-disas_4","tag-eco_9","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}