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The Ranapratap Sagar Dam is a gravity masonry dam of height built on the Chambal River at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan in India. It is part of integrated scheme of a cascade development of the river involving four projects starting with the Gandhi Sagar Dam in the upstream reach ( upstream) in Madhya Pradesh and the Jawahar Sagar Dam on the downstream ( downstream) with a terminal structure of the Kota Barrage ( further downstream) in Rajasthan for irrigation.〔 The direct benefit from the dam is hydropower generation of 172 MW (with four units of 43 MW capacity each) at the dam toe powerhouse adjoining the spillway, with releases received from the Gandhi Sagar Dam and the additional storage created at the dam by the intercepted catchment area. The estimated generation potential of 473.0 GWh of generation has been exceeded in most years since its commissioning. The power station was officially declared open on 9 February 1970 by Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India. The dam and power plant are named after the warrior Maharaja Rana Pratap of Rajasthan.〔〔 ==Geography== The dam is located on the Chambal River near Rawatbhata in Rajasthan. The dam drains a total catchment area of , of which only are in Rajasthan. The free catchment intercepted at this dam site, below Gandhi Sagar Dam, is .〔 The Chambal River (known in ancient times as the Charmavati River), a perennial river, which is first tapped at the Gandhi Sagar dam as part of its cascade development, raises in the Vindhya Range of hills at an elevation of , south of Mhow ( west-southwest of Mhow). It flows north-northeast through Madhya Pradesh, runs for a time through Rajasthan, then forms the boundary between Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh before turning southeast to join the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh state. Its total length from source up to the confluence with the Yamuna River near Etawah at elevation ( is . It flows in a north-south direction for about ( in Madhya Pradesh and then enters Rajasthan at Chaurasigarh about south east from Kota and eventually joins the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh near Etawah.〔 The river reach of from to from its source is a deep gorge section and further downstream there are plains. The Gandhi Sagar Dam is located in the middle reach of the gorge section of the river and affords good storage facility. For the next (, the river flows through the Kundal Plateau, and the Rana Pratap Sagar Dam is constructed at the lower end of this reach, about ( upstream of Chulia Falls. Here again, the topography permits fairly good storage upstream of the dam.〔 The river is drained by a rainfed catchment with major part of the catchment receiving an average rainfall of , with temperature variation from a maximum of to a minimum of , and with the relative humidity lying between 30 and 90% during the year.〔 The nearest railway station is at Kota, which is at a road distance of , from the dam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rana Pratap Sagar Dam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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