INDIA

INDIA / भारत.

Definitive stamps.
Bhakra Dam.
Tenth stamp in a set of 11, issued on 15.03.1967.
Face value: 5 Indian rupee.
Printed by India Security Press, Nashik (Maharashtra).
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 41 x 23 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 399.
- Scott No. 421.
- StampWorld No. 402.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 519.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 232.

Bhakra Dam (Hindi: भाखड़ा बांध) is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Bhakra Village near Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh State in northern India. Its length (measured from the road above it) is 518.25 m (1,700 ft) and the width is 9.1 m (30 ft). Its height is 226 m (741 ft). Construction of the dam started in 1948 and was completed by the end of 1963. Successive stages were completed by the early 1970s. During its construction, more than 370 villages were submerged. The dam retains excess water during the monsoon and provides regulated discharge throughout the year. It also prevents damage due to monsoon flooding. Electric power is produced at the dam, and the Bhakra Canal fed by this dam provides irrigation for 10 million acres of fields (40,000 km²). The dam forms the Gobind Sagar reservoir.