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Table1. Allocation of storage Capacities in the D.V.C. Dams
Tilaiya Konar Maithon Panchet Total
Storage
Capacity

% Storage

Capacity

*

% Storage

Capacity

*

% Storage

Capacity

*

% Storage

Capacity

*

%

Irrigatio
n and
Power

135

36 179 66 496 45 185 15 975 33

Flood
Control
140

45 45 16 440 40 881 73 1510 52

88 19 49 18 168 15 148 12 426 15
To top
of gate
363

100 273 100 1104 100 1214 100 2911 100

*in thousand acre feet

Source DVC data Book (1966)

The system of dams and reservoirs designed to develop and control the waters of the

Damodar valley is administered by a public corporation- the Damodar Valley

Corporation (D.V.C.). The control system is generally referred to as the D.V.C. system.

It consists of four dams, Tilaiya and Maithon on the Barakor, and Konar and Panchet Hill

on the river Damodar (Fig. 1). Of these, Tilaiya is a concrete gravity dam while the

others are earth dams with a concrete spillway. The total storage capacity of the four

dams together amounts to 2.9 million acre-feet, which is allocated between the different

objectives as shown in Table 1.