Hydro Power Station (1892) | electric power industry / power supply

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THIS IS 9.3 Mega Watt Hydro Power House over Upper Ganga Canal, build by British Gov. in 1892. Still in use.
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Coordinates:   29°42'13"N   77°51'37"E

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  • ANUJ RATHI
  • THIS IS 9.3 Mega Watt Hydro Power House Bulid by British Gov. in 1892.
  • This Plant may be of 1892 but the stone fixed near the Bridge describing that this bridge was esablished in 1857.
  • This plant was commission in 1952. in British time power plants were not so common. The first hydroelectric plant in India was installed in Darjeeling in 1897. In a project of Hydro Power Plant on Upper Ganga Canal, Pathri and Mohanpur Mohammadpur Power Plants along the canal's length were commissioned in 1955 and 1952, respectively. Please refer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhimgoda_Barrage
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