About Salal Hydroelectric Project:
- It is a 690 MW run-of-the-river power project on the Chenab River in the Reasi District of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Although the plan for a water reservoir was originally conceived in pre-independent India, the planning of the project started in the 1960s.
- The project construction commenced in 1970 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in 1987.
- The project is developed and owned by National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC).
- This was the first hydropower project, which was built by India under the Indus Water Treaty regime in Kashmir.
- Salal Dam is 130 meters high with an elevation of 1627 feet above mean sea level.
- Jammu and Kashmir receives 12.5 percent of the energy generated from the project.
- The rest is transmitted to the Northern Grid, where it is distributed to the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh.
- Jammu and Kashmir also purchases additional power at regular prices.
