31/12/2021

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Kulekhani Dam and Indra Salobar Reservoir.
Stamp issued on 8.12.1982.
Face value: 2 Nepalese rupee.
Design: M. N. Rana.
Engraved and printed by Carl Ueberreuter Druck, Wien.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,500,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 424.
- Scott No. 406.
- StampWorld No. 420.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 428.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 394.

The Kulekhani Dam is a rock-fill dam on the Kulekhani River, in Makwanpur District of Narayani Zone. Its construction began in 1977 and ended in 1982. The dam, 114 m (374 ft) high, creates a reservoir called Indra Sarobar, with an area of 2.2 km2 (0.85 sq mi) and a length of 7 km (4.3 mi), which stores 85,300,000 m3 (69,200 acreft) of water. From the reservoir, the water is sent to the Kulekhani I hydroelectric plant through a 5.8 km (3.6 mi) inlet tunnel; the difference in elevation between the reservoir and the power station affords a net hydraulic head of 550 m (1,800 ft).

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